what is the biggest man made lake in texas?
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Located on the eastern edge of Sabine National Forest, Toledo Bend Reservoir is the largest lake in Texas and the fifth largest in the nation.
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A remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan, Pyramid Lake was formed during the Pleistocene Epoch (i.e., about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago). It is the largest natural lake in the state, about 30 miles (48 km) long and 7 to 9 miles (11 to 14 km) wide, and is fed from the south by the Truckee River.
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Human-Made Lakes And Ponds. Many people have declared that “Missouri doesn't have any natural lakes.” This is because they discount the many scour holes, oxbow lakes, and karst-made lakes described just above. But indeed, the lakes and ponds most of Missourians visit are indeed “manmade.”
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Lake Texcoco (Spanish: Lago de Texcoco) was a natural lake within the "Anahuac" or Valley of Mexico. ... The entire lake basin is now almost completely occupied by Mexico City, the capital of the present-day nation of Mexico.
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The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.
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At 1,943 feet (592 meters), Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and one of the deepest in the world.
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Pymatuning Reservoir is a man-made lake in Crawford County, Pennsylvania and Ashtabula County, Ohio in the United States, on land that was once a very large swamp. Much of it is incorporated into two state parks: Pymatuning State Park in Pennsylvania, and Pymatuning State Park in Ohio.
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But Alaska's enormous Devil Mountain Lakes maar is more than 5 miles (8 km) wide, by far the largest on Earth, Beget said. That's comparable in size to the calderas atop Hawaii's Kilauea volcano and Oregon's Crater Lake at Mount Mazama.
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['Lake Ray Hubbard; Northeast Dallas. ... ', 'White Rock Lake; East Dallas. ... ', 'Grapevine Lake; Grapevine. ... ', 'Bachman Lake; Northwest Dallas. ... ', 'Joe Pool Lake; Cedar Hill. ... ', 'Mountain Creek Lake; Grand Prairie. ... ', 'Lake Tawakoni; West Tawakoni. ... ', 'Cedar Creek Reservoir; Henderson & Kaufman Counties.']
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If you didn't know it, Texas is big. ... A few more fun facts: Texas would be the 39th largest country in the world (out of 197) if it were its own country. You could fit all of the UK inside Texas 2.8 times. Even more amazingly, you could fit TEN European countries inside Texas at once, with room to spare.
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The only true all-inclusive resort in Texas, Lake Austin Spa Resort overlooks the Colorado River, 23 miles from Texas's capital city.
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The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake, with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre feet (5.615 km3).
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The numbers for the world's largest freshwater lake (in terms of surface area), which straddles the U.S.-Canada border and touches Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, are staggering: 31,700 square miles of surface water; 350 miles wide and 160 miles long; 2,726 miles of shoreline; an average depth of nearly 500 feet, ...
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Lake Anna is one of the largest fresh-water inland lakes in Virginia, covering an area of 13,000 acres (53 km²). The man-made lake is formed by a dam on the North Anna River. By 1972 the lake bottom was cleared of all timber and the dam was nearing completion.
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The Akosombo Dam – also known as the Volta Dam – is on the Volta River in south east Ghana. At 124m tall and 660m long, the structure holds back the waters of Lake Volta – the largest man-made lake in the world by surface area.
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The U.S. Forest Service manages approximately 675,000 acres of public land in Texas. This land is divided into four National Forests (Angelina, Davy Crockett, Sabine, Sam Houston) in east Texas and the Caddo-Lyndon B. ... This Forest forms part of the boundary between Texas and Louisiana.
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In Texas, the state's Commission on Environmental Quality, the TCEQ, is responsible for water quality. It generally considers most lakes to be safe for swimming.