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Lakes in South Carolina

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake Village Lake, previously named Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake, is a reservoir in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. Construction of the reservoir was finished in 1973. The lake is on a tributary of the Crane Creek River. The lake i ...

Lake Blalock Lake Blalock (formally, the H. Taylor Blalock Reservoir) is a reservoir in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, located on the Pacolet River about five miles north of Spartanburg. After its creation was authorized in 1976 by the Commissioners of Sp ...

Lake Bowen Lake Bowen or Lake William C. Bowen is a reservoir in northern Spartanburg County, South Carolina, from the North Carolina border. The Interstate 26 bridge crosses over Lake Bowen between exits 5 and 10 on Interstate 26. The lake stretches pa ...

Lake Brown Brown Lake or Lake Brown may refer to: Australia * Brown Lake (Stradbroke Island), a lake in Queensland *Brown Lake (Western Australia), a lake in Western Australia * Lake Brown (Western Australia), two lakes of the same name in Western Australia ...

* Lake Greenwood * Lake Hartwell * Lake Jocassee *

John D. Long Lake John D. Long Lake is an manmade lake in Union County, South Carolina. It is used for fishing, with largemouth bass, bluegill, shellcracker (redear sunfish), and catfish in the lake. There is a boat ramp and a fishing pier. Location and geograph ...

* Lake Keowee *

Lake Marion 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 larger ...

Monticello Reservoir Monticello is a reservoir in the U.S. state of South Carolina, built to provide water for the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station.Lake Moultrie * Lake Murray *

Parr Reservoir Parr Reservoir or Parr Shoals Reservoir is an impoundment of the Broad River in Pomaria, South Carolina. It is the last dam on the Broad River before the river reaches Columbia, South Carolina, and the Columbia Canal. The lake is mainly used as ...

* Pepsi Cola Lake *

Richard B. Russell Lake Richard B. Russell Lake (known to locals as simply "Lake Russell") is a reservoir created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by construction of Richard B. Russell Dam on the Savannah River bordering Elbert County, Georgia and Abbeville County, ...

* Saluda Lake *

Lake Strom Thurmond Lake Strom Thurmond, officially designated J. Strom Thurmond Reservoir at the federal level, and Clarks Hill Lake by the state of Georgia, is a reservoir at the border between Georgia and South Carolina in the Savannah River Basin. Description ...

* Swan Lake/Iris Gardens *

Lake Tugalo Lake Tugalo is a reservoir with of shoreline located in the northeastern Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia in Habersham County, Georgia, Habersham and Rabun County, Georgia, Rabun counties, but also lies partially in Oconee County, South Carolina. It ...

Lake Wateree Lake Wateree is a reservoir in Kershaw, Fairfield, and Lancaster counties, South Carolina, in the United States. Developed in 1919 by the damming of the Wateree River, it is one of South Carolina's oldest man-made lakes. It has of shoreline a ...

* Lake Wylie *

Lake Yonah Lake Yonah is a lake on the Tugaloo River, separating Georgia and South Carolina. The lake is created by the Yonah Dam, which is owned and operated by Georgia Power, and generates 22 megawatts. Lake Yonah is a residential lake with 72 vacation an ...

* Lake Secession

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Lakes 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 larger ...

Lakes in South Carolina

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