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Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake, sometimes called the Portsmouth Pit, is the deepest lake completely within the state of Minnesota, USA. It has a depth of over 450 feet (137 m), according to the most recent Minnesota DNR data. Lake Superior, over 700 feet deep off the north shore of the state, is technically deeper.
Ponto Lake is a 347-acre (1.40 km 2) lake located 2 miles (3.2 km) north and 8 miles (13 km) east of Backus, Minnesota. A public access is located on the southeast shore just north of State Highway 84 .
Kabekona Lake is a clear lake in northern Minnesota, United States, located 2.5 miles south of Laporte in Hubbard County. Kabekona has a surface area of 2,433 acres (10 km 2 ) and a maximum depth of 133 feet (41 m) — with an average depth of 53 feet (16 m). [ 1 ]
Fish Lake Reservoir, sometimes called Fish Lake Flowage, is a 3,526-acre (14.27 km 2) impoundment of the Beaver River, part of the Cloquet and Saint Louis River system, located 20 miles northwest of the city of Duluth, Minnesota. The Fish Lake Dam has been the site of archaeological excavations since 2000.
This is a list of lakes of Minnesota. Although promoted as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", Minnesota has 11,842 lakes of 10 acres (4.05 ha) or more. [1] The 1968 state survey found 15,291 lake basins, of which 3,257 were dry. [2] If all basins over 2.5 acres were counted, Minnesota would have 21,871 lakes. [3]
The lake has a surface area of 1,593.22 acres and a maximum depth of 15 feet. [1] The lake is part of the Cannon River system that starts in Shields Lake, goes through Le Sueur and Rice counties and drains into the Mississippi River. [2] A survey of the lake in August 2009 showed the most predominant species of fish was the walleye.
On November 27, 2012, the White Bear Lake Restoration Association filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota DNR for what the group alleges is the agency's role in the city's disappearing lake. [9] This resulted in the DNR getting 13 communities to adopt water conservation tactics to reduce water consumption. [10]
The Minnesota DNR ranks Lake Vermilion as the fifth largest lake by surface area for bodies of water entirely within Minnesota borders. The surface area of Lake Vermilion is 39,271 acres (158.9 km 2) and has a maximum depth of 76 feet (23 m). [3] It is located within the southernmost section of the Canadian Shield, and contains over 365 islands.