The largest man-made crater in the United States is twelve miles southwest of what lake?
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Sedan (nuclear test) Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on July 6, 1962 as part of Operation Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining, cratering, and other civilian purposes. The radioactive fallout from the test contaminated more US residents than any other nuclear test. The Sedan Crater is the largest man-made crater in the United States, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Sedan Crater Sedan Crater is the result of the Sedan nuclear test and is located within the Nevada Test Site, 12 mi southwest of Groom Lake, Nevada (Area 51). The crater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 1994. The crater is a man-made object that can be seen from earth orbit with the unaided eye.
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Lake Winnebago Lake Winnebago is a freshwater lake in the north central United States, located in east central Wisconsin. At 137700 acre it is the largest lake entirely within the state, covering an area of about 30 by , with 88 mi of shoreline, an average depth of 15.5 ft , and a maximum depth of 21 ft . It has many shallow reefs along the west shore, and a drop-off type shoreline on the east. There are several islands along the west shore.
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Blue Lake Crater Blue Lake Crater is a maar in the U.S. state of Oregon. It consists of three overlapping craters, which are filled by the waters of Blue Lake.
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Lake Monroe (Indiana) Lake Monroe is a reservoir located about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Bloomington, Indiana, United States. The lake is the largest entirely situated in Indiana with 10,750 acre of water surface area spread over the counties of Monroe and Brown. Capacity varies from 292 GL to 428 GL depending on water level. It is also home to 13,202 acre of protected forest and three recreational areas (Fairfax, Hardin Ridge, and Paynetown). Indiana's only federally protected U.S. Wilderness Area, the 13000 acre Charles C. Deam Wilderness Area, is located on the south shore. The pool elevation (above sea level) is about 538 ft (164 m) year-round. During colder winters, limited ice fishing is available on protected backwater portions of the reservoir.
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Abiquiu Lake Abiquiu Lake is a reservoir located in Rio Arriba County, in northern New Mexico in the southwestern United States. Water of the Rio Chama is impounded by the earth-filled Abiquiu Dam, 1,800 feet (550 m) long and 340 feet (104 m) high, completed in 1963 and raised in 1986. The 5200 acre lake is over 12 miles (20 km) long, and lies at elevations of 6,100 - .
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Quake Lake Quake Lake (officially Earthquake Lake) is a lake in southwestern Montana in the United States. It was created after an earthquake struck on August 17, 1959, killing 28 people. Today, Quake Lake is 190 ft deep and 6 mi long. US 287 follows the lake and offers glimpses of the effects of the earthquake and landslide and visitor center is just off the road. The lake is mostly within Gallatin National Forest.
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Herman LeRoy Fairchild Herman Le Roy Fairchild (April 29, 1850 – November 29, 1943) was an American educator and geologist. He was an early proponent of the theory of meteorite impact causing craters such as that of Meteor Crater, Arizona. Fairchild also left his mark on glacial geology. In that field he is best known for having accurately mapped the proglacial lakes of western New York. He did his field work between the 1888 and the early years of the 20th century. He located strand lines (beaches) and erosional surfaces, determined their altitude, and interpolated between them to show the extent of several large bodies of water. A series of lakes was created as the Wisconsinan glaciation ended and ice sheets retreated during the latest Pleistocene and early Holocene epochs. Fairchild discovered several outlets where each lake drained to the east or west.
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Lake Washington Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle. It is the largest lake in King County and the second largest natural lake in the state of Washington, after Lake Chelan. It borders the cities of Seattle on the west, Bellevue and Kirkland on the east, Renton on the south and Kenmore on the north, and encloses Mercer Island. The lake is fed by the Sammamish River at its north end and the Cedar River at its south.
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Big Spirit Lake Big Spirit Lake is a natural body of water, approximately 5684 acre in area, in Dickinson County in northwest Iowa in the United States. It is part of the chain of lakes known as the Iowa Great Lakes, the northern shore of the lake straddles the border with Minnesota. It is the largest natural lake in Iowa. The Dakotah Indian name for the lake was Minnewaukon. Early French traders named it Lac D' Esprit after the Indian legends of an evil spirit who dwelled in the lake.
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Charity Shoal Crater The Charity Shoal Crater is a 1.2-1.4 km in diameter circular feature that lies submerged beneath the northeast end of Lake Ontario about 12 km southwest of Wolfe Island, and 25 km south of Kingston, Ontario at about latitude 44° 02′ N and longitude 76° 29′ W. It is hypothesized to be a Middle Ordovician impact crater.
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Paulina Lake Paulina Lake is one of the twin crater lakes in Newberry Crater, central Oregon, United States (the other being East Lake). It is located 6331 ft above sea level in the Deschutes National Forest near La Pine. The lake's primary inflow is seepage from East Lake, snow melt, and hot springs, and its outflow is Paulina Creek, a tributary of the Deschutes River. It has an area of 1531 acre , a volume of 249850 acre.ft , a maximum depth of 250 ft , a shore length of about 6.7 mi , and a residence time of about 46 years. The lake is classified as mesotrophic, with a transparency of approximately 13.1 ft . It is about 40 ft lower and one mile west of its twin, East Lake.
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Beaverhead crater Beaverhead is an impact structure in central Idaho and western Montana in the United States.
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Hamlin Lake Hamlin Lake is a man-made lake in Michigan enlarged by the backup of the Big Sable River by the Hamlin Lake Dam before it reaches Lake Michigan. The lake, which covers 4990 acre , is 12 miles long and two miles wide. It has two sections, the upper and lower lakes, which are separated by the narrows. The western section has a maximum depth of almost 80 ft while the eastern section is only 34 ft The first dam was built in the 1850 for a sawmill. Ludington State Park lies along the entire western shore of the lake while the eastern tip of the lake is in the Manistee National Forest.
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Otter Tail Lake Otter Tail Lake is a 21 sqmi lake in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the largest lake in Otter Tail County.
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Honey Lake Honey Lake is an endorheic sink within the Honey Lake Valley located in northeastern California, near the Nevada border. Summer evaporation reduces the lake to a lower level of 12 km2 and creates an alkali flat.
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Conesus Lake Conesus Lake is a lake located in Livingston County, New York. Conesus Lake is the westernmost of New York's eleven Finger Lakes. It is located off Interstate 390 about 15 mi south of Interstate 90.
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Lake Murray (Oklahoma) Lake Murray is a 5,700 acre lake in south central Oklahoma, near Ardmore named for Oklahoma Governor William H. Murray. It was created by damming Anadarche and Fourche Maline Creeks. The lake is wholly within Lake Murray State Park, Oklahoma's largest state park, containing over 12,500 acres (51 km²) of relative wilderness. A state-operated lodge and resort is located on the west shore that serves many visitors to the lake, and serves as a base for numerous cabin and campground facilities near the lake.
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Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a 12459 acre National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in the central part of the U.S. state of Montana. It lies in northern Cascade County, 12 mi north of the city of Great Falls, Montana. Benton Lake NWR includes shortgrass prairie and seasonal wetlands, and is nearly surrounded by the Highwood Mountains to the east, Big Belt Mountains to the south, and the Rocky Mountains to the west. Benton Lake NWR is on the western edge of the northern Great Plains and much of the shallow lake is a 6000 acre wetland.
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Lake Mead Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States in terms of water capacity. Formed by the Hoover Dam, the reservoir serves water to the states of Arizona, California, and Nevada, providing sustenance to nearly 20 million people and large areas of farmland. Lake Mead is on the Colorado River, about 24 mi from the Las Vegas Strip, southeast of the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the states of Nevada and Arizona.
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Lake Martignano Lake Martignano (Italian: Lago di Martignano), is a small lake in Lazio, Italy 15 mi north-north-west of Rome, in an extinct crater or maar.
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Cleawox Lake Cleawox Lake (klē’ ə woks), is a body of water dammed by sand dunes along the Pacific Ocean coast of the U.S. state of Oregon. The lake is about 3 mi south of Florence along U.S. Route 101. Sharing the lakeshore are private properties as well as Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area and Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park, which also partly fronts on Woahink Lake. "Cleawox" is derived from the Siuslaw name for the lake.