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  2. Lake Willoughby - Wikipedia

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    1,171 feet (357 m) [1] U.S. National Natural Landmark. Designated. 1967. Lake Willoughby is located in the town of Westmore in Orleans County in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, United States. The lake 's southern end is surrounded by the Willoughby State Forest. This state forest includes Mount Pisgah, Mount Hor, collectively " Willoughby Gap ".

  3. Haycock Creek (Tohickon Creek tributary) - Wikipedia

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    Haycock Creek rises at an elevation of 590 feet (180 m) in Springfield Township northeast of the intersection of Winding Road and Mink Road and flows to the southeast. It then becomes the border of Haycock and Nockamixon Townships until it meets the lake at an elevation of 394 feet (120 m). Its confluence with the Tohickon in the lake is the ...

  4. Black Moshannon State Park - Wikipedia

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    Black Moshannon State Park is a 3,480-acre (1,410 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Rush Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It surrounds Black Moshannon Lake, formed by a dam on Black Moshannon Creek, which has given its name to the lake and park. The park is just west of the Allegheny Front, 9 miles (14 km) east of Philipsburg ...

  5. Caledonia State Park - Wikipedia

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    Caledonia State Park is a 1,125-acre (455 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Greene Township, Franklin County and Franklin Township, Adams County in southern Pennsylvania . The park is named for the Caledonia Furnace, an iron furnace that was owned by Thaddeus Stevens beginning in 1837. Today the park is known for its recreational activities and ...

  6. Lake Qaraoun - Wikipedia

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    Lake Qaraoun (Arabic: بحيرة القرعون / ALA-LC: Buḥayrat al-Qara‘ūn) is an artificial lake or reservoir located in the southern region of the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. It was created near Qaraoun village in 1959 by building a 61 m-high (200 ft) concrete-faced rockfill dam (the largest dam in Lebanon) in the middle reaches of the ...

  7. List of flooded towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Celilo, flooded by Lake Celilo. Champoeg, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862. Copper, under Applegate Reservoir. Detroit, inundated by Detroit Lake and relocated. Dorena, flooded by Dorena Reservoir and relocated. Homestead, possibly under the Hells Canyon Reservoir. Linn City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862. Orleans, destroyed by the ...

  8. Tulare Lake - Wikipedia

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    Tulare Lake ( / tʊˈlɛəri / ⓘ) or Tache Lake ( Yokuts: Pah-áh-su, Pah-áh-sē) is a freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. Historically, Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. [2] For thousands of years, from the Paleolithic onward, Tulare Lake was a uniquely ...

  9. French Creek State Park - Wikipedia

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    French Creek State Park. /  40.21167°N 75.79194°W  / 40.21167; -75.79194. French Creek State Park is a 7,977-acre (3,228 ha) Pennsylvania state park in North Coventry and Warwick Townships in Chester County and Robeson and Union Townships in Berks County, Pennsylvania. [3] It straddles northern Chester County and southern Berks County ...