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Location: Gila County, Arizona, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Type: reservoir: Primary inflows: Salt River, Tonto Creek: Catchment area: 5,830 sq mi (15,100 km 2): Basin countries: United States: Managing agency: Salt River Project: Max. length: 22.4 mi (36.0 km): Max. width: 2 mi (3.2 km): Surface area: 21,493 acres (8,698 ha): Max. depth: 349 ft (106 m): Water volume: 1,653,043 acre⋅ft ...
Tempe Town Lake is an artificial perennial reservoir located just north of Tempe Butte at the confluence of the intermittent Salt River and the ephemeral Indian Bend Wash in Tempe, Arizona, United States. The reservoir receives most of its water from the Colorado River through the Central Arizona Project.
Lake Kissimmee State Park: Polk: 5,930 acres (2,402 ha) 1977: Lake Kissimmee: The 1876 Cow Camp is a living history site with Cracker Cowboys: Lake Louisa State Park: Lake: 4,372 acres (1,771 ha) 1974: Lake Louisa: Park includes the Green Swamp and six lakes Lake Manatee State Park: Manatee: 556 acres (225 ha) 1970: Lake Manatee: 60-site ...
St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park is a Florida State Park, located three miles north of Fellsmere. It is located in both Indian River County and Brevard County, and is designed around protecting the natural surroundings of the Saint Sebastian River. The park is also co-managed by the St. Johns River Water Management District.
Local springs in Lake George (and throughout the St Johns River) impart enough salt to the system to make the habitat suitable to resident and migratory marine species like Atlantic stingray, various species of mullet, striped bass and blue crabs. There is a large enough blue crab population to support a local fishery, making it one of the only ...
Sebastian Inlet State Park is a Florida state park located 10 miles south of Melbourne Beach and 6 miles north of Vero Beach in Florida. The park lies on both sides of the Sebastian Inlet, which forms the boundary between Brevard and Indian River counties. The land for the park was acquired by the state of Florida in 1971. In 2010, it was the ...
Completed at a cost of $10 million, it was the largest masonry dam in the world for its time, and one of the tallest, surpassing the 135-foot Lake Hemet Dam with a height of 280 feet (84 m) and a length of 723 feet (216 m), while 1,600,000 acre-feet (2.0 km 3) Roosevelt Lake was for a time the world's largest artificial reservoir. The dam was ...
It was created by the Clarence Cannon Dam (formerly called Joanna Dam) impounding the Salt River and is located about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Hannibal. The lake was named for Missouri author Mark Twain and part of the area around it is Mark Twain State Park. The village of Florida, the birthplace of Mark Twain, is mostly surrounded by the ...