There are at least 75 named
lake
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.
Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...
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Granite County, Montana
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Lakes
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Albicaulis 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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Altoona Lakes, , el.
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Bielenberg Lake, , el.
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Boulder Lakes, , el.
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Carpp Lake, , el.
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Copper Creek Lakes
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Crystal Lake, , el.
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Dead Lake, , el.
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Dora Thorn Lake, , el.
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Echo Lake, , el.
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Edith Lake, , el.
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Flower Lake, , el.
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Fred Burr Lake, , el.
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Fuse Lake, , el.
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George Lake, , el.
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Goat Mountain Lakes, , el.
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Gold Creek Lakes, , el.
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Green Canyon Lake, , el.
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Green Lake, , el.
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Hidden Lake, , el.
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Hunters Lake, , el.
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Ivanhoe Lake, , el.
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Johnson Lake, , el.
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Kaiser Lake, , el.
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Kroger Pond, , el.
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Lake Abundance, , el.
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Lion Lake, , el.
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Little Fish Lake, , el.
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Little Fred Burr Lake, , el.
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Little Johnson Lake, , el.
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Little Racetrack Lake, , el.
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Lower Carpp Lake, , el.
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Martin Lake, , el.
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Meadow Lakes, , el.
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Meadow Lakes, , el.
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Medicine Lake, , el.
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Milo Lake, , el.
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Moose Lake, , el.
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Mud Lake, , el.
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Mud Lake, , el.
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Page Lake, , el.
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Phyllis Lake, , el.
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Potato Lakes
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Pozega Lakes, , el.
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Racetrack Lake, , el.
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Rainbow Lake, , el.
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Sauer Lake, , el.
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Sidney Lake, , el.
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Spruce Lake
Spruce Lake is located northwest of Piseco, New York. Fish species present in the lake are brook trout
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Stewart Lake (Granite County, Montana), , el.
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Stony Lake, , el.
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Susie Lake, , el.
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Tamarack Lake, , el.
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Thompson Lake (Granite County, Montana), , el.
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Thornton Lake, , el.
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Tolean Lake, , el.
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Upper Carpp Lake, , el.
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Upper Phyllis Lake, , el.
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Whetstone Lake, , el.
Reservoirs
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Albicaulis 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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Big Pozega Lake, , el.
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East Fork Reservoir, , el.
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Fisher Lake, , el.
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Georgetown Lake
Lake Georgetown is a reservoir on the north fork of the San Gabriel River in central Texas in the United States. Lake Georgetown is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir formed on the San Gabriel by the North San Gabriel Dam, which is locate ...
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Gold Creek Lake, , el.
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Goldberg Reservoir, , el.
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Green Lake, , el.
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Little Pozega Lake, , el.
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Lower Willow Creek Reservoir, , el.
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Mud Lake, , el.
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Racetrack Lake, , el.
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Stephens 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 i ...
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{{Granite County, Montana
Bodies of water of Granite County, Montana
Granite
Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...