There are at least 166 named
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A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...
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reservoir
A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.
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Beaverhead County, Montana
Beaverhead County is the largest county by area in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,371. Its county seat is Dillon. The county was founded in 1865.
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Lakes
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Ajax Lake, , el.
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Albino Lake, , el.
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Alpine Lake
An alpine lake is a high-altitude lake in a mountainous area, usually near or above the tree line, with extended periods of ice#On lakes, ice cover. These lakes are commonly glacial lakes formed from glacial activity (either current or in the pas ...
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Anchor Lake, , el.
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Antelope Pond, , el.
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Baldy Lake, , el.
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Barb Lake, , el.
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Bear Lake, , el.
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Berry Lake, , el.
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Black Lion Lake, , el.
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Blair Lake, , el.
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Blanchard Pond, , el.
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Boatman Lake, , el.
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Bobcat Lakes, , el.
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Bobs Lake, , el.
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Cattle Gulch Lake, , el.
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Chain Lake, , el.
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Chan Lake
Chan may refer to:
Places
*Chan (commune), Cambodia
*Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada
People
* Chan Caldwell (1920–2000), Canadian football coach
*Chan Gailey (born 1952), American football coach
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Cherry Lake
Cherry Lake (also known as Lake Lloyd) is an artificial lake in the Stanislaus National Forest of Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A., about east of the city of Sonora. It is at an elevation of on the western side of the Sierra Nevada, and l ...
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Conklin Lake, , el.
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Continental Lake (Montana), , el.
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Cooks Lake, , el.
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Cowbone Lake, , el.
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Coyote Lake, , el.
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Crescent Lake, , el.
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Crystal Lake, , el.
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Dad Creek Lake, , el.
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Darkhorse Lake, , el.
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Deadman Lake, , el.
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Deerhead Lake, , el.
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Dingley Lakes, , el.
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Dollar Lake, , el.
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Elbow Lake, , el.
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Elk Lake, , el.
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Elkhorn Lake, , el.
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Englejard Lake, , el.
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Ferguson Lake, , el.
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Fish Creek Lake, , el.
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Foolhen Lake, , 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.
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Goldstone Lake, , el.
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Gorge Lakes, , el.
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Grace Lake, , el.
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Granite Lake, , el.
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Grassy Lake, , el.
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Grayling Lake, , el.
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Green Lake, , el.
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Grouse Lakes, , el.
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Hall Lake, , el.
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Hamby Lake, , el.
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Harkness Lakes, , el.
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Harrison Lake
Harrison Lake is the largest lake in the southern Coast Mountains of Canada, being about 250 square kilometres (95 mi2) in area. It is about 60 km (37 mi) in length and at its widest almost 9 km (5.6 mi) across. Its sou ...
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Heart Lake, , el.
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Hidden Lake, , el.
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Highup Lake, , el.
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Hopkin Lake, , el.
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Horseshoe Lake, , el.
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Ice Pond, , el.
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Janhke Lake, , el.
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Johanna Lake, , el.
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Kelly Lake, , el.
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Lake Abundance, , el.
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Lake Agnes, , el.
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Lake Canyon Lake, , el.
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Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the List of largest lakes of Europe, largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône. Sixty percent () ...
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Lake of the Woods
Lake of the Woods (; ) is a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. Lake of the Woods is over long and wide, containing more than 14,552 islands and of shoreline. It is fed by t ...
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Lena Lake, , el.
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Lillian Lake, , el.
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Lily Lake, , el.
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Lily Lake, , el.
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Lion Lake, , el.
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Lion Lake, , el.
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Lion Lake, , el.
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Little Lake, , el.
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Long Branch Lake, , el.
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Long Lake, , el.
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Lovell Lake, , el.
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Lovells Lake, , el.
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Lower Miner Lakes, , el.
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Lower Red Rock Lake, , el.
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MacDonald Pond, , el.
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Maurice Pond, , el.
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May Lake, , el.
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Minneopa Lake, , el.
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Morrison Lake, , el.
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Mosquito Lake, , el.
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Mud Lake, , el.
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Mud Lake, , el.
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Mud Lake, , el.
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Mulkey Lake, , el.
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Mussigbrod Lake, , el.
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Mystic Lake, , el.
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Nymphaea Lake
''Nymphaea'' () is a genus of hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. Many species are cultivated as ornamental plants, and many cultivars have been bred. Some taxa occur as introduc ...
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Odell Lake, , el.
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Ovis Lake, , el.
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Pear Lake (Montana), , el.
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Peterson Lake, , el.
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Phlox Lake, , el.
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Pintler Lake, , el.
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Pioneer Lake, , el.
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Poison Lakes, , el.
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Polaris Lake, , el.
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Rainbow Lake, , el.
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Ridge Lake, , el.
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Rock Island Lakes, , el.
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Sand Lake, , el.
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Sawed Cabin Lake, , el.
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Sawtooth Lake
Sawtooth Lake is an alpine lake in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located high in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is approximately southwest of Stanley. A trail from the Iron Creek trailhead a ...
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Schulz Lakes, , el.
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Schwinegar Lake, , el.
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Scott Lake, , el.
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Selway Lake, , el.
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Shambow Pond, , el.
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Skinner Lake, , el.
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Skytop Lake, , el.
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Slag-a-melt Lakes, , el.
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Steer Lake, , el.
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Stewart Lake, , el.
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Stone Lakes, , el.
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Surprise Lake, , el.
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Swan Lake
''Swan Lake'' ( rus, Лебеди́ное о́зеро, r=Lebedínoje ózero, p=lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə, links=no ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failu ...
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Swift Lake, , el.
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Tahepia Lake, , el.
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Teacup Lake, , el.
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Tendoy Lake, , el.
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Tent Lake, , el.
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Timberline Lake, , el.
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Torrey Lake, , el.
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Trapper Lake, , el.
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Trusty Lake, , el.
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Twin Lakes, , el.
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Twin Lakes, , el.
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Upper Miner Lakes, , el.
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Upper Red Rock Lake, , el.
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Van Houten Lake, , el.
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Vera Lake, , el.
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Violet Lake (Montana), , el.
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Waukena Lake, , el.
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Widgeon Pond, , el.
Reservoirs
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Anchor Lake (Montana), , el.
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Blomquist Reservoir, , el.
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Bond Lake, , el.
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Boot Lake, , el.
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Brownes Lake, , el.
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Canyon Lake, , el.
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Clark Canyon Reservoir
Clark Canyon Dam is an earthfill dam located in Beaverhead County, Montana, about south of the county seat of Dillon. The dam impounds the waters of the Beaverhead River, creating a body of water known as Clark Canyon Reservoir. The structure wa ...
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Deerhead Lake, , el.
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Dillon Reservoir
Dillon Reservoir, sometimes referred to as Lake Dillon, is a large fresh water reservoir located in Summit County, Colorado, United States, south of I-70 and bordered by the towns of Frisco, Silverthorne, and Dillon. It is a reservoir for th ...
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Estler Lake, , el.
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Fish Reservoir, , el.
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Hirschy Reservoir, , el.
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Kelley Reservoir, , el.
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Kelly Reservoir, , el.
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Keystone Reservoir, , el.
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Lake Agnes, , el.
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Lima Reservoir
Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...
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Morgan Jones Lake, , el.
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Mussigbrod Lake, , el.
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Overnight Reservoir, , el.
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Pear Lake (Montana), , el.
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Reservoir Lake
A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.
Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...
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Reservoir Lake
A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.
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Schultz Reservoir, , el.
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Tub Lake, , el.
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Waukena Lake, , el.
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Widgeon Pond, , 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 i ...
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Bodies of water of Beaverhead County, Montana
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