There are at least 66 named
lake
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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Sanders County, Montana
Sanders County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,400. Its county seat is Thompson Falls. The county was founded in 1905.
It has an annual county fair with rodeo at Plains.
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Lakes
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Acorn Lake
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Baldy Lake
Baldy Lake is a lake in the east-central part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in Narrow Hills Provincial Park. It is situated in the Cub Hills and the boreal forest ecozone of Canada.
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Banana Lake, , el.
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Bass Pond
Bass or Basses may refer to:
Fish
* Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species
Music
* Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range:
** Bass (instrument), including:
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Bear Lake, , el.
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Beaver Lake, , el.
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Beaver Lake, , el.
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Berry Lake, , el.
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Blossom Lakes, , el.
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Buck Lake, , el.
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Burgess Lake, , el.
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Cabin Lake, , el.
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Carbine Lake
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Cliff Lake, , el.
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Copper Lake, , el.
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Corona Lake, , el.
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Crescent Lake, , el.
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Deer Lake, , el.
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Duckhead Lake, , el.
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Elk Lake, , el.
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Engle Lake
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Fishtrap Lake
Fishtrap Lake is a reservoir in Pike County, Kentucky. Dedicated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968, the lake was formed by the impounding of the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River at the 195-foot-high Fishtrap Dam () by the United States Arm ...
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Frog Lake Frog Lake may refer to:
* Frog Lake, Alberta, a Cree community in Canada, site of the
** Frog Lake Massacre
* Frog Lake (Colchester), a lake of Colchester County, in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Goat Lakes
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Graves Lake
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Grouse Lake
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Honeymoon Lake, , el.
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Image Lake
Image Lake is a tarn in Glacier Peak Wilderness, in the North Cascades of Washington, United States. The lake is surrounded by Plummer Peak to the east, a lookout point to the west, the Miners Creek drainage and Glacier Peak to the south, and C ...
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Isabella Lake
Lake Isabella also called Isabella Lake, is a reservoir in Kern County, California, United States created by the earthen Isabella Dam. It was formed in 1953 when the United States Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the ...
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Knowles Lake, , el.
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Lawn Lake
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Little Ibex Lake, , el.
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Lower Thompson Lake, , el.
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Marmot Lakes
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Ninetythree Mile Lake, , el.
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Outlaw Lake, , el.
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Pear Lake, , el.
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Quail Lake, , el.
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Rainbow Lake, , el.
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Rock Lake, , el.
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Rush Lake, , el.
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Saint Paul Lake, , el.
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Schmitz Lakes, , el.
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Smiley Slough, , el.
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Snowshoe Lake, , el.
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Stony Lake, , el.
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Sylvan Lake, , el.
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Terrace Lake, , el.
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Thompson Lakes, , el.
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Tuffys Lake, , el.
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Twin Lakes, , el.
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Upper Fishtrap Lake, , el.
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Upper Lake, , el.
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Wanless Lake, , el.
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Winniemuck Lake, , el.
Reservoirs
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Cabinet Gorge Reservoir, , el.
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Dry Fork Reservoir
Dry or dryness most often refers to:
* Lack of rainfall, which may refer to
**Arid regions
**Drought
* Dry or dry area, relating to legal prohibition of selling, serving, or imbibing alcoholic beverages
* Dry humor, deadpan
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Noxon Rapids Reservoir, , el.
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Noxon Reservoir Noxon may refer to any one of the following:
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* Noxon, Montana
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* Christopher Noxon (b. 1968), American writer and journalist
* James Noxon (1818–1881), New York lawyer and politician
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Thompson Falls Reservoir, , el.
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Upper Dry Fork Reservoir, , el.
See also
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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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Bodies of water of Sanders County, Montana
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