Crescent Lake (formerly known as Rattlesnake Pond) is a lake in Raymond, Maine, United States. It is located around north of the center of Raymond. A few other lakes surround it, including

Panther Pond Panther Pond is a lake located in Raymond, Maine in Cumberland County. Panther Pond is approximately long and wide. The deepest part of the lake is approximately . Panther Pond is connected to two lakes. The first, the much larger Sebago L ...

to the south (connected by the

Tenny River The Tenny River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 30, 2011 navigable stream connecting Crescent Lake with Panther Pond in the town of Raymond in the U.S. state o ...

), Raymond Pond to the east, Thompson Lake to the north and Dumpling Pond and Coffee Pond to the west. It has a surface area of and a maximum depth of ,Crescent Lake
– State of Maie which occurs in its northeastern section. Its shoreline runs for . Webbs Mills Road, part of

Maine State Route 85 State Route 85 (abbreviated SR 85) is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways, located in the southern central part of the state. It runs for , connecting U.S. Route 302 (US 302) and SR 35 in Raymond to SR 11 in Casco ...

, passes to the west of the lake, running in a north–south direction, connecting Raymond, East Raymond and the village of Crescent Lake.

Camp Agawam Camp Agawam is a boys' camp located on Crescent Lake in Raymond, Maine, U.S., and is one of the oldest summer camps for boys in the United States. Collins, Susan. Sunlight FoundationCapitol Words: Senate: Additional Statements: Sen. Susan Collins ...

, one of the oldest summer camps for boys in the United States, Collins, Susan. Sunlight Foundation
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(August 5, 2009) (accessed 14 March 2013) is situated on the northwestern shores of the lake. Crescent Lake Watershed Association was formed in 2008.

Geography

Crescent Lake receives drainage from Coffee Pond and Dumpling Pond in northern

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and extends south into Raymond. The southern end of the lake overflows through the

to south. The town of Raymond maintains a small boat ramp and swimming area on Webbs Mills Road (

) at the southern end of the lake.

Wildlife

When Crescent Lake was surveyed in 1995, the following fish were found to be present: * Landlocked salmon * Rainbow smelt * Smallmouth bass * Largemouth bass * White perch * Chain pickerel * Golden shiner * Bridled shiner * Fallfish (chub) * White sucker * Creek chubsucker * Hornpout (bullhead) * Banded killfish *

Pumpkinseed sunfish The pumpkinseed (''Lepomis gibbosus''), also referred to as pond perch, common sunfish, punkie, sunfish, sunny, and kivver, is a small/medium-sized North American freshwater fish of the genus ''Lepomis'' (true sunfishes), from family Centrarchi ...

American eel The American eel (''Anguilla rostrata'') is a facultative catadromous fish found on the eastern coast of North America. Freshwater eels are fish belonging to the elopomorph superorder, a group of phylogenetically ancient teleosts. The America ...

* Cusk Dissolved oxygen deficiency below the summer thermocline limits suitability for cold-water fish; but the lake still supports populations of cusk and rainbow smelt.

References

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