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Lake Marion (top) and Lake Moultrie (bottom right) from space. This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the state of South Carolina in the United States. All major lakes in South Carolina are man-made. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Max. depth. 76.77 ft (23.40 m) [1] Lake Marion is a large man-made lake in central South Carolina. It has a 315-mile (507 km) shoreline and covers nearly 110,000 acres (450 square kilometers or 173.7 square miles) [2] of rolling farmlands, former marshes, and river valley landscape. With territory spanning five counties, the lake is referred to ...
360 ft (110 m) 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Murray is a reservoir in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is approximately 50,000 acres (20,000 hectares) in size, and has roughly 650 mi (1,050 kilometres) of shoreline. It was impounded in the late 1920s to provide hydroelectric power to the state of South Carolina.
439 ft (134 m) Lake Greenwood was formed by a hydroelectric dam built across the Saluda River near Chappells SC. The impoundment was licensed by the Federal Power Commission, predecessor to the current Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), as the Buzzards Roost Project. The project was re-licensed by FERC in 1995.
South Carolina has several major lakes covering over 683 square miles (1,770 km 2). All major lakes in South Carolina are human-made. The following are the lakes listed by size. [58] [59] Lake Marion 110,000 acres (450 km 2) Lake Strom Thurmond (also known as Clarks Hill Lake) 71,100 acres (290 km 2) Lake Moultrie 60,000 acres (240 km 2)
38 State Parks. 8 State Historic Sites. 1 State Resort Park. 1 State Recreational Area. Cheraw State Park was the first park to be proposed within the system in 1934 with Myrtle Beach State Park becoming the first park to open in 1936. [3] Within six years, the State of South Carolina and the CCC opened 17 state parks. [4]
Lake Greenwood State Park. Lake Greenwood State Park is a state park located near the town of Ninety Six in Greenwood County, South Carolina. The 914-acre (3.7 km 2) park partially occupies a series of peninsulas bordering 11,400-acre (46.1 km 2) Lake Greenwood. The state park consists of land donated in 1938, during the Great Depression, by ...
Lake Wylie is located on a peninsula along the shore of Lake Wylie in the Piedmont of both North and South Carolina, at (35.105973, -81.056978 According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.7 square miles (12 km 2), of which 3.5 square miles (9.1 km 2) is land and 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2) (26.58%) is water.
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