There are at least 164 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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Park County, Montana
Park County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. At the 2020 census, the population was 17,191. Its county seat is Livingston. A small part of Yellowstone National Park is in the southern part of the county.
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Lakes
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Aldridge 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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Anvil Lake, , el.
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Aquarius Lake, , el.
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Arrastra Lake, , el.
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Astral Lake, , el.
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Basin Lake, , el.
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Beauty Lake, , el.
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Blacktail Lake, , el.
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Bob Lake, , el.
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Boulder Lakes, , el.
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Bridge Lake, , el.
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Broadwater Lake, , el.
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Campfire Lake, , el.
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Carpenter Lake
Carpenter Lake, officially Carpenter Lake Reservoir, is the largest of the three reservoirs of the Bridge River Power Project, which is located in the mountains west of Lillooet, British Columbia. The lake is about 185 kilometres north of the pr ...
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Casey Lake, , el.
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Castle Lake, , el.
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Cave Lake, , el.
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Cavity Lake, , el.
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Charlie White Lake, , el.
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Cliff Lake, , el.
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Colley Lake, , el.
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Companion Lake, , el.
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Corner Lake, , el.
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Cottonwood Lake, , el.
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Courthouse Lake, , el.
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Crag Lake, , el.
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Crescent Lake, , el.
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Crevice Lake, , el.
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Crystal Lake, , el.
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Curl Lake, , el.
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Cutler Lake, , el. , surface area:
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Dailey Lake, , el. , surface area:
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Dead Horse Lakes, , el.
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Diamond Lake, , el.
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Dick Lake, , el.
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Dollar Lake, , el.
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Druckmiller Lake, , el.
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Elbow Lake, , el.
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Elk Lake, , el.
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Fawn Lake, , el.
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Ferrell Lake, , el.
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Finger Lake
A finger lake, also known as a fjord lake or trough lake, is "a narrow linear body of water occupying a glacially overdeepened valley and sometimes impounded by a morainic dam."Kotlyakov and Komarova (2007), 255. Where one end of a finger lake ...
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Fire Lake, , el.
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Fish Lake, , el.
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Fitzpatrick Lake, , el.
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Five Lakes, , el.
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Fizzle Lake, , el.
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Fly Lake, , el.
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Fox Lake, , el.
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Fulcrum Lake, , el.
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Gate Lake, , el.
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George Lake, , el.
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Glacier Green 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.
Formation
Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,0 ...
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Granite Lake, , el.
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Grasshopper Lakes, , el.
* Green Lake, , el.
* Green Lake, , el.
* Hidden Lake, , el.
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High Lake, , el.
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Hilltop Lake
Hilltop Lake is a lagoon in Richmond, California.[Rheem Creek Watershed Map](_blank) , , el.
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* Horseshoe Lake, , el.
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Huckleberry Lake, , el.
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Imelda Lake, , el.
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Incisor Lake, , el.
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Jeff Lake, , el.
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Jewel Lake
Jewel Lake is a former reservoir and artificial lake along Wildcat Creek, a small stream in Northern California in Tilden Regional Park. , , el.
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Kaufman Lake, , el.
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Kersey Lake, , el.
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Knott Lake, , el.
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La Velle Lake, , el.
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Lady of the Lake
The Lady of the Lake (, , , , ) is a title used by multiple characters in the Matter of Britain, the body of medieval literature and mythology associated with the legend of King Arthur. As either actually fairy or fairy-like yet human enchantres ...
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Lake Abundance, , el.
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Lake Aries, , el.
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Lake McKnight, , el.
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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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Leaky Raft Lake, , el.
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Leech Lake
Leech Lake (translated from the Ojibwe language ''Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag'': Lake abundant with bloodsuckers) is a lake located in north central Minnesota, United States. It is southeast of Bemidji, Minnesota, Bemidji, located mainly within the L ...
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Lillis Lake, , el.
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Little Goose Lake, , el.
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Little Green Lake
Little Green Lake is a lake located in Green Lake County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to ...
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Little Joe Lake, , el.
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Little Molar Lake, , el.
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Lone Elk Lake, , el.
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Lone Lake, , el.
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Lone Lake, , el.
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Lonesome Pond, , el.
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Looking Glass Lake, , el.
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Lost Lakes, , el.
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Lower Aero Lake, , el.
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Marsh Lake
Marsh Lake (Mud Lake) is a widening of the Yukon River southeast of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. It is over long and ranges from wide. It has an area of and a mean depth of .
The co-ordinates of the lake are , and is above sea level. The lak ...
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Merrell Lake, , el.
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Moccasin Lake, , el.
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Molar 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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Mutt Lake, , el.
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No Bones Lake, , el.
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Nurses Lakes, , el.
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Oasis Lakes, , el.
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Ovis Lake, , el.
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Paddle Lake, , el.
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Panhandle Lake, , el.
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Peanut Lake, , el.
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Pear Lake, , el.
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Pine Creek Lake, , el.
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Pneumonia Lake, , el.
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Production Lake, , el.
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Recroitment Lake, , el.
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Redfield Lake, , el.
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Reed Lake, , el.
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Rock Island Lake
Rock Island Lake is a small alpine lake in Elmore County, Idaho, United States, located in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is accessed from Sawtooth National Forest trail 459 along Johnson Creek.Sawtoot ...
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Rough Lake, , el.
* Round Lake, , el.
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Sedge Lake, , el.
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Sedge Lake, , el.
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Shelf Lake, , el.
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Shelter Lake, , el.
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Shooting Star Lake, , el.
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Silver Lake, , el.
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Skull Lake, , el.
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Sky Top Lakes, , el.
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Slide Lake, , el.
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Smeller Lake, , el.
* Snow Lake, , el.
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Sodalite Lake, , el.
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Sourdough Lake, , el.
* Spider Lake, , el.
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Splinter Lake, , el.
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Sportsman Lake, , el.
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Star Dust Lake, , el.
* Star Lake, , el.
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Stash Lake, , el.
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Stepping Stone Lake, , el.
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Sunlight Lake, , el.
* Surprise Lake, , el.
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Swamp Lake, , el.
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Thompson Lake (Park County, Montana), , el.
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Trapper Lake, , el.
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Upper Aero Lake, , el.
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Vernon Lake, , el.
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Wall Lake, , el.
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Washtub Lake, , el.
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Weasel Lake, , el.
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West Boulder Lake, , el.
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Wiedy Lake, , el.
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Wolf Lakes, , el.
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Wolf Voice Lake, , el.
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Wrong Lake, , el.
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Yankee Jim Lake, , el.
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Zimmer Lake, , el.
Reservoirs
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Cottonwood 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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Bodies of water of Park County, Montana
Park
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...