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* Lake Meredith, man-made lake formed by a dam on the Canadian River at Sanford, Texas
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* Lake Meredith National Recreation Area ( part )
* Lake Meredith National Recreation Area ( part )
The creation of nearby Lake Meredith also added to the town's economy as an important recreational area.
Lake Meredith lies just outside the city of Fritch and is a main source of water for surrounding communities, though the city actually uses well water drawn from the Ogallala Aquifer for its municipal water supply.
Fritch is located adjacent to the Lake Meredith National Recreation Area offering residents and visitors ample opportunities for outdoor activities including boating, fishing, camping, hiking, and seasonal hunting.
Image: Lake Meredith Rattlesnake Island. jpg | Rattlesnake Island in Lake Meredith
Image: Fritch Fortress Boat Ramp. jpg | Fritch Fortress boat ramp on Lake Meredith
* Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
In the West Texas part of the southwest, there is the Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Fort Davis National Historic Site, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, and the Amistad National Recreation Area.
On August 25, 2000, Dallin H. Oaks married Kristen Meredith McMain in the Salt Lake Temple.
Lake Winnipesaukee is known for its annual Ice-Out Contest, in which people try to guess the earliest date that the Mount Washington can safely leave her port in Center Harbor and motor to four other ports ( Weirs Beach, Alton Bay, Wolfeboro, and Meredith ).
Meredith is situated beside Lake Winnipesaukee.
The primary village in town, where 1, 718 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Meredith census-designated place ( CDP ), and is located at the junction of U. S. Route 3 and New Hampshire Route 25 at the head of Meredith Bay on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Meredith was first known as Palmer's Town in honor of Samuel Palmer, a teacher of surveying and navigation who laid out much of the land surrounding Lake Winnipesaukee.
The outlet of Lake Waukewan provided water power sites, and by 1859 Meredith village had a sawmill, gristmill, shingle mill, blacksmith shop, harness-maker's shop and tannery.
Situated at the outlet of Wickwas Lake, Meredith Center had a sawmill, gristmill and blacksmith shop.
Meredith is bounded to the northeast by Lake Winnipesaukee.
North of Amarillo lies Lake Meredith, a reservoir created by Sanford Dam on the Canadian River.
In 1862, William Meredith married Mary ( 1842 – 1930 ), daughter of Marcus Holmes, Mayor of London, Director of the London & Lake Huron Railway Company and President of the Horticultural Society.
From there it crosses the Texas Panhandle, dammed at Sanford, Texas, where it forms Lake Meredith.
Lake and man-made
At Fort Ethan Allen the ever-present wind off Lake Champlain could readily flip a puny man-made thing like an airplane if the pilot miscalculated.
Anāsāgar Lake, this historic man-made lake was built by Maharaja Anaji ( 1135-1150 AD ).
The circuit uses everyday sections of road that circle Albert Park Lake, a small man-made lake just south of the Central Business District of Melbourne.
The Lake of the Hirsel, Pressmennan Lake and Lake Louise are other bodies of water in Scotland which are called lakes and all are man-made.
The Missouri River forms Lake Sakakawea, the third largest man-made lake in the United States, behind the Garrison Dam .< ref >
At the time it was formed, Gatun Lake was the largest man-made lake in the world.
* Lake Norman, a major man-made lake in North Carolina
In the Costa Rican province of Guanacaste, the town of Arenal was rebuilt to make room for the man-made Lake Arenal.
The centerpiece of Columbia would be The Mall in Columbia and man-made Lake Kittamaqundi.
The Bear River starts on the north slope of the Uintas and flows north past Bear Lake, into which some of Bear River's waters have been diverted via a man-made canal into the lake, but later empty back into the river by means of the Bear Lake Outlet.
* 8 lakes reserved for tourists, including the Lake Der-Chantecoq, the largest man-made lake in Europe
Lake Eucha, a man-made reservoir on Spavinaw Creek, completed in 1952, lies primarily within Delaware County.
Lake Bronson, for which the city of Lake Bronson takes its name, is man-made.
Kentucky Lake ( created by the impounding of the Tennessee River ) and Lake Barkley ( created through the impounding of the Cumberland River ) make up one of the largest man-made bodies of water in the world.
Lake Vermilion, a man-made reservoir, is the largest body of water in the county ; it lies on the northwest side of Danville and is the source of the city's water, and also provides recreation opportunities.
A tourist attraction in Lake Havasu City is the London Bridge, which crosses a 930 ft ( 280 m ) long man-made canal that leads from Lake Havasu ( on the Colorado River ) to Thompson Bay.
It is named after Lake Hamilton, one of the area's man-made lakes.
Lake Hindsville is one of the oldest man-made lakes in Arkansas.
Primarily a retirement and vacation center, Bull Shoals is bordered in three directions by the clear, deep, man-made Bull Shoals Lake.
Lake and lake
Turkey's largest lake, Lake Van, is situated in the mountains at an elevation of.
Lake Sevan, across at its widest point and long, is by far the largest lake.
landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range
Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.
In Lake Victoria, an isolated lake which formed recently in the African rift valley, over 300 species of cichlid fish adaptively radiated from one parent species in just 15, 000 years.
* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.
* Alph Lake, a lake in Antarctica
Lake Foy Sagar is situated in the outskirts of the city, it is a picturesque artificial lake that was created as a famine relief project in 1892.
* Lake Turkana, Kenya ( the largest alkali lake in the world )
Lake Tanganyika is used for transport, with the major port on the lake being Bujumbura.
Dozmary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake.
* Lake Bruin, ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in northeastern Louisiana
Lake Chad is the second largest lake in west Africa and is one of the most important wetlands on the continent.
The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.
: Hydropower from Lake Arenal, the largest lake in Costa Rica.
Cayuga Lake is the source of drinking water for several communities, including Lansing near the southern end of the lake along the east side, which draws water through the Bolton Point Municipal Water system.
The Lake Cadillac is entirely within the city limits, and some claim it is the largest lake entirely in any city in the United States.
Cadillac experiences a typical northern Michigan climate, undergoing temperate seasonal changes, influenced by the presence of Lake Michigan and the inevitable lake effect.
Lake Voulismeni at the coast, at Aghios Nikolaos, was formerly a sweetwater lake but is now connected to the sea, in Lasithi.
* Lake Cadillac, a lake in Cadillac, Michigan
While the Chicago River historically handled much of the region's waterborne cargo, today's huge lake freighters use the city's Lake Calumet Harbor on the South Side.
** Ilopango Lake, El Salvador crater lake.
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