The following is a list of canals in the United States:

Transportation canals in operation

This list includes active canals and artificial waterways that are maintained for use by boats. While some abandoned canals and drainage canals have stretches that can be paddled in a small craft like a canoe, these are not included in this list. The United States also constructed the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.

Abandoned transportation canals

Irrigation, industrial, and drainage canals

Arizona

* Central Arizona Project * Salt River Project Canals **

Arizona Canal The Arizona Canal is a major canal in central Maricopa County that led to the founding of several communities, now among the wealthier neighborhoods of suburban Phoenix, constructed in the late 1880s. Flood irrigation of residential yards is st ...

California

* All-American Canal *

Back Channel Back Channel is a canal in the Port of Long Beach, California, United States, and is nearby to Terminal Island, Island Grissom, and Thenard. It is also close to the port's East Basin and the Gerald Desmond Bridge. See also * Long Beach Naval ...

Beardsley Canal Beardsley Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California. It originates at the Kern River, east of Gordon's Ferry and just west of the First Point of Measurement. It is the first diversion from the river in the San Joaquin Valley for agricu ...

* Buena Vista Canal *

California Aqueduct The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of Northern and Central California to Southern California. Named after Cali ...

Calloway Canal Calloway Canal is an irrigation canal owned by the North Kern Water Storage District in Kern County, California. It originates from the Kern River, just east of Golden State Highway ( SR 204 freeway) in Bakersfield. It terminates at reservoirs loca ...

Carrier Canal Carrier Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California. It originates from a common diversion at Manor Street in Bakersfield, which also supplies the Kern Island Canal and Eastside Canal. The common diversion originates from the Kern River ...

* Coachella Canal * Colorado River Aqueduct * Contra Costa Canal *

Corning Canal Corning may refer to: People * Corning (surname) Places In Canada: * Corning, Saskatchewan In the United States of America: * Corning, Arkansas * Corning, California * Corning, Indiana * Corning, Iowa * Corning, Kansas * Corning, Michiga ...

* Delta–Mendota Canal *

Eastside Canal Eastside Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California. It originates from a common diversion at Manor Street in Bakersfield, which also serves the Carrier Canal and Kern Island Canal. The common diversion originates from the Kern River, a ...

Folsom South Canal The Folsom South Canal is an aqueduct in Northern California in the United States. The canal diverts water from the American River at Nimbus Dam in Sacramento County and travels about in a southerly direction, terminating near Clay, about northe ...

Friant-Kern Canal The Friant-Kern Canal is a aqueduct (water supply), aqueduct managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in Central California to convey water to augment irrigation capacity in Fresno County, California, Fresno, Tulare County, California, ...

* Glenn Colusa Canal * Inter-California Canal *

Kern Island Canal Kern Island Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California. It primarily irrigates farmland located on the Kern Lakebed, south of Bakersfield. It originates from a common diversion at Manor Street in Bakersfield, which also supplies the Ca ...

Los Angeles Aqueduct The Los Angeles Aqueduct system, comprising the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Owens Valley aqueduct) and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct, is a water conveyance system, built and operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The Owens Valley ...

Madera Canal The Madera Canal is a -long aqueduct in the U.S. state of California. It is part of the Central Valley Project managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation to convey water north to augment irrigation capacity in Madera County. It was also t ...

* Orland South Canal * Orland North Canal * Pioneer Canal * Putah South Canal *

Stine Canal Stine Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California. It originates from the Carrier Canal Carrier Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California. It originates from a common diversion at Manor Street in Bakersfield, which also sup ...

* Tehama Colusa Canal

Florida

Hillsboro Canal The Hillsboro Canal is located in the southeastern portion of Florida within the South Florida Water Management District, and for much of its length forms the border between Broward and Palm Beach counties; however, its western end was entirel ...

* Miami Canal *

North New River Canal North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' i ...

Tamiami Canal The Tamiami Canal or C-4 Canal, is a canal located in southern Florida in the United States. It flows in a west to east direction from the western part of the state in the Everglades past the Miami International Airport to a salinity control cent ...

* West Palm Beach Canal

Hawaii

*Waiolama Canal,

Hilo Hilo () is a census-designated place (CDP) and the largest settlement in Hawaii County, Hawaii, Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States, which encompasses the Hawaii (island), Island of Hawaii. The population was 44,186 according to the 2020 United ...

Idaho

New York Canal The New York Canal is an irrigation canal in the Western United States, western United States, located in Southwestern Idaho, southwestern Idaho. Sourced from the Boise River, it originates at the Boise River Diversion Dam, Diversion Dam in ...

Illinois

* North Shore Channel (popular for canoeing and kayaking)

Louisiana

17th Street Canal The 17th Street Canal is the largest and most important drainage canal in the city of New Orleans. Operating with Pump Station 6, it moves water into Lake Pontchartrain. The canal, along with the Orleans Canal and the London Avenue Canal, form ...

* Carondelet Canal *

Florida Canal The Florida Canal or 40 Arpent Canal is a canal in the New Orleans metropolitan area and land down river. The canal was built in the 18th century colonial era of Louisiana, stretching from what is now the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New O ...

London Avenue Canal The London Avenue Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, used for pumping rain water into Lake Pontchartrain. The canal runs through the 7th Ward of New Orleans from the Gentilly area to the Lakefront. It is one of the three main drai ...

New Orleans Outfall Canals There are three outfall canals in New Orleans, Louisiana – the 17th Street, Orleans Avenue and London Avenue canals. These canals are a critical element of New Orleans’ flood control system, serving as drainage conduits for much of the city ...

Orleans Canal The Orleans Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
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*Washington-Palmetto Canal

Massachusetts

* Holyoke Canal System * Lowell Power Canal System

Michigan

Edison Sault Power Canal The Edison Sault Power Canal supplies the Saint Marys Falls Hydropower Plant, a Cloverland Electric Cooperative hydroelectric plant, in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Excavation of the power canal began in September 1898 and was completed in June ...

Nebraska

Loup Canal The Loup Canal is a hydroelectric and irrigation canal located in eastern Nebraska, United States. The canal is owned and managed by Loup Power District, a public power electric utility. The canal is long. It begins at headworks on the Loup Riv ...

New Jersey

* Cape May Canal * Delaware and Raritan Canal *

Dundee Canal The Dundee Canal was an industrial canal in Clifton and Passaic in Passaic County, New Jersey. It was built between 1858 and 1861 and ran parallel to the Passaic River. It supplied hydropower and water for manufacturing. There was interest by so ...

* Morris Canal *

Point Pleasant Canal The Point Pleasant Canal is a canal in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. It was completed in 1925 to connect the Manasquan Inlet and Manasquan River with Bay Head Harbor on the northern end of Barnegat Bay. The canal is part of the Intracoastal Waterwa ...

Raritan Water Power Canal The Raritan Water Power Canal in Raritan, New Jersey was a three-mile long water power canal built during the early 1840s to power industries. The canal has been determined to be eligible for the National Register. The canal is included in Duke ...

* Washington Canal

Texas

American Canal The American Canal is an irrigation canal in the Upper Rio Grande Valley near El Paso, Texas. The canal acquires water from the Rio Grande from the American Diversion Dam at the Texas–New Mexico–Mexico border, northwest of downtown El Pa ...

* Franklin Canal *

Riverside Canal (El Paso) The Riverside Canal is an irrigation canal in El Paso County beginning southeast of El Paso, Texas. The canal acquires water from the Riverside Diversion Dam on the Rio Grande southeast of El Paso. The canal is managed by the US Bureau of Recla ...

(Texas) * Texas Irrigation Canals

Natural inlets called canals

Lynn Canal and Portland Canal in Alaska and Hood Canal in Washington are natural

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In marine geogra ...

s that use the name ''canal''.

Canals by state

These are man made canals in each state that have been given a name and may consist of a narrow irrigation or drainage ditch to a large ship, municipal water and/or irrigation canal. States with extensive agricultural acreage may have many hundred to thousands of canals. USGS Topographical map numbers and latitudes and longitudes of each canal, usable as inputs into Google, Bing, etc. maps, are usually given.