There are at least 178 named
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A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...
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reservoir
A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation.
Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...
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Carbon County, Montana
Carbon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,473. Its county seat is Red Lodge.
Carbon County is part of the Billings, MT Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Lakes
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Abandoned Lake, , el.
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Albino Lake, , el.
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Alp Lake, , el.
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Anchor Lake, , el.
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Anvil Lake, , el.
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Arch Lake
Arch Lake is a lake in Carbon County, Montana, in the United States.
Arch Lake took its name from the granite arch that sits on the south ridge. It is remote from all roads, but can be reached on foot. Much of the route to it is rugged and part o ...
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Arrowhead Lake, , el.
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Basin Creek Lake, , el.
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Bergschrund Lake, , el.
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Big Butte Lake, , el.
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Big Moose Lake
Big Moose Lake, at the head of the Moose River, is a large lake about north of Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. The lake is within both Herkimer and Hamilton counties, and covers portions of the towns of Webb and Long La ...
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Big Park Lake, , el.
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Black Canyon Lake, , el.
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Bowback Lake, , el.
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Broadwater Lake Broadwater, Broad Water or Broadwaters may refer to:
Places Australia
* Electoral district of Broadwater, Queensland
*Gold Coast Broadwater
*Broadwater National Park
*Broadwater, New South Wales
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Burnt Bacon Lake, , el.
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Cairn Lake, , el.
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Canyon Lake, , el.
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Castle Lake, , el.
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Cladocera Lake
The Diplostraca or Cladocera, commonly known as water fleas, are a superorder of small crustaceans that feed on microscopic chunks of organic matter (excluding some predatory forms).
Over 1000 species have been recognised so far, with many more ...
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Cloverleaf Lakes Cloverleaf or clover leaf may refer to:
Plant
*The leaf of the clover plant, or its shape
Companies
* Clover Leaf Seafoods, Markham, Ontario-based marketer of seafood products
Places
* Cloverleaf, Louisville, Kentucky, a neighborhood
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Copeland Lake Copeland or Copeland's may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Copeland, New South Wales
Canada
* Copeland Islands (Nunavut)
* Copeland Islands Marine Provincial Park, in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
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Copepod Lake
Copepods (; meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat. Some species are planktonic (inhabiting sea waters), some are benthic (living on the ocean floor), a number of species have p ...
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Cradle Lake
Cradle may refer to:
* Cradle (bed)
* Bassinet, a small bed, often on rockers, in which babies and small children sleep
Mechanical devices
* Cradle (circus act), or aerial cradle or casting cradle used in an aerial circus act
* Cradling (paintin ...
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Crazy Lakes
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Crescent Lake, , el.
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Crow Lake, , el.
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Crystal Lake Crystal Lake or Crystal Lakes may refer to:
Lakes
Canada
* Crystal Lake (Saskatchewan)
* Crystal Lake (Ontario), drain into the Lynn River, which drains into Lake Erie
United States
* Crystal Lake, California, a mountain lake in Nevad ...
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Daly Lake, , el.
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Desolation Lake, , el.
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Dewey Lake
Dewey Lake, located near Prestonsburg, Kentucky in Floyd County, is part of the integrated flood reduction system operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the entire Ohio River Basin.
The lake was formed by impounding John's C ...
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Diamond Lake, , el.
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Donelson Lake, , el.
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Dude Lake, , el.
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Duggan Lake, , el.
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East Rosebud Lake, , el.
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Echo Lake, , el.
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Elephant Lake, , el.
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Elk Horn Lake, , el.
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Elk Lake, , el.
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Elpestrine Lake, , el.
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Erratic Lake, , el.
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Estelle Lake, , el.
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Falls Creek Lake, , el.
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Farley Lake
Farley Lake is a small alpine lake in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located high in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is approximately south of Stanley. There are two small islands in Farley Lak ...
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First Rock Lake, , el.
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Flat Rock Lake, , el.
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Fossil Lake
Fossil Butte National Monument is a United States National Monument managed by the National Park Service, located west of Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States. It centers on an assemblage of Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago) animal and pl ...
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Fritter Lake, , el.
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Frosty Lake, , el.
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Gallery Lake, , el.
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Ghost Lake
Ghost Lake is a reservoir in Western Alberta, Canada, formed along the Bow River. It is located approximately west of the city of Calgary and immediately west of Cochrane. It has a water surface of and a drainage basin of The average depth of ...
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Glissade Lake, , el.
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Goat Lake Goat Lake may refer to:
*Goat Lake (Sawtooth Wilderness), a glacial lake in Custer County, Idaho
*Goat Lake (Glacier County, Montana)
*Goat Lake (Snohomish County, Washington)
See also
*Goat Haunt Lake, a lake in Glacier National Park, Montana
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Golden Lake, , el.
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Granite Lake, , el.
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Granite Lake, , el.
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Gravel Lake, , el.
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Green Lake, , el.
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Greenough Lake, , el.
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Hairpin Lake, , el.
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Hatchet Lake, , el.
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Heart Lake, , el.
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Hellroaring Lake, , el.
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Hellroaring Lakes, , el.
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Hermit Lake, , el.
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Hidden Lake, , el.
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High Pass Lake, , el.
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Indian Knife Lake, , el.
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Jasper Lake, , el.
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Jenny Lake
Jenny Lake is located in Grand Teton National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The lake was formed approximately 12,000 years ago by glaciers pushing rock debris which carved Cascade Canyon during the last glacial maximum, forming a terminal m ...
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Jorden Lake, , el.
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Keyser Brown Lake, , el.
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Kidney Lake, , el.
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Kookoo Lake, , el.
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Lake at Falls, , el.
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Lake Elaine, , el.
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Lake Gertrude, , el.
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Lake Mary, , el.
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Lake of the Clouds, , el.
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Lake of the Winds, , el.
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Lake Susanne, , el.
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Lake Sylvan, , el.
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Lennon Lake, , el.
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Line Lake, , el.
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Little Scat Lake, , el.
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Liver Lake, , el.
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Lonesome Lake, , el.
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Lost Lake, , el.
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Lost Lake, , el.
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Lowary Lake, , el.
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Lower Arch Lake, , el.
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Lower Basin Creek Lake, , el.
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Mariane Lake, , el.
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Marker Lake, , el.
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Martin Lake, , el.
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Martin Lake, , el.
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Maryott Lake, , el.
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Medicine Lake, , el.
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Moon Lake, , el.
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Navajo Tarn, , el.
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North Hidden Lake, , el.
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Nymph Lake, , el.
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Oly Lake, , el.
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Omega Lake, , el.
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Otter Lake, , el.
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Ouzel Lake, , el.
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Pat Lake, , el.
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Picket Lake, , el.
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Planaria Lake, , el.
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Pleiades Lakes, , el.
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Rachel Lake, , el.
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Rainbow Lake, , el.
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Red Rock Lakes
The Red Rock Lakes Wilderness is within the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Montana, United States. The wilderness occupies more than three fourths of the refuge and was set aside to enhance species preservation, especially ...
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Red Storm Lake, , el.
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Rimrock Lake
Rimrock Lake is a lake along the course of the Tieton River, in Yakima County, Washington state, US.
The lake is used as a storage reservoir for the Yakima Project, an irrigation project run by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. An impoundm ...
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Robble Lake, , el.
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Rock Tree Lake, , el.
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Russell Lake, , el.
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Rydberg Lake, , el.
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Scat Lake, , el.
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Second Rock Lake, , el.
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Senal Lake, , el.
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September Morn Lake, , el.
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Shadow Lake, , el.
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Shadow Lake, , el.
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Sheep Lake, , el.
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Shelf Lake
Shelf Lake is an alpine lake in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located in the White Cloud Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is named for a distinct rock shelf extending around the south and west shores of the lake ...
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Ship Lake, , el.
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Shrew Lake, , el.
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Shrimp Lake, , el.
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Silt Lakes, , el.
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Silver Run Lakes, , el.
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Silver Tarn, , el.
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Sky Pilot Lake, , el.
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Sliderock Lake, , el.
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Slough Lake, , el.
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Smethurst Lake, , el.
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Snail Lake, , el.
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Snow Lakes, , el.
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Snowbank Lake, , el.
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Snowbank Lake, , el.
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Snowbank Lake, , el.
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Spogen Lake, , el.
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Summerville Lake, , el.
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Summit Lake, , el.
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Sundance Lake, , el.
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Thiel Lake, , el.
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Throop Lake, , el.
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Till Lake, , el.
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Timberline Lake, , el.
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Trail Lake, , el.
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Triangle Lake, , el.
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Triangle Lake, , el.
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Triskele Lake, , el.
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Twin Outlets Lake, , el.
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Two Bits Lake, , el.
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Varve Lake, , el.
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Vogel Lake, , el.
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Wand Lake, , el.
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Whitcomb Lake Whitcombe or Whitcomb may refer to:
People
* Whitcombe (surname)
*George Faunce Whitcomb
* Ian Whitcomb (1941-2020)
Places
;United Kingdom
* Whitcombe, Dorset, England
* Whitcombe, Somerset, England
;United States
* Whitcomb, Indiana
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Widewater Lake, , el.
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Widowed Lake, , el.
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Wild Bill Lake, , el.
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Wright Lake, , el.
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Z Lake, , el.
Reservoirs
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Adams Reservoir, , el.
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Bidstrip Reservoir, , el.
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Cooney Reservoir, , el.
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Cooney Reservoir, , el.
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Depression Reservoir, , el.
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Glacier Lake
A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land and then melts, filling the depression created by the glacier.
Formation
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Glacier Lake
A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land and then melts, filling the depression created by the glacier.
Formation
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Hunters Reservoir, , el.
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Jones Reservoir, , el.
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Monroe Reservoir, , el.
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Shupak Ponds, , el.
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V O Reservoir, , el.
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List of lakes in Montana
There are at least 3,223 named lakes and reservoirs in Montana. The following list contains lists of lakes and reservoirs in Montana by county.
A lake is a terrain feature (or physical feature), a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is ...
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Carbon
Carbon () is a chemical element with the symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalent
In chemistry, the valence (US spelling) or valency (British spelling) of an element is the measure of its combining capacity with o ...