Largest lakes & reservoirs in Historic High Country Region, GA by water volume
The estimated volume of water that a lake contains is measured at the lake’s normal elevation. By this measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is Siberia’s Lake Baikal.Water Volume can be measured in acre-feet, in cubic miles, or in cubic kilometers. One acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre (43,560 square feet) to a depth of one foot. One cubic mile equals 3,379,200 acre-feet. One cubic kilometer equals 810,713 acre-feet. 1 acre-foot is equal to 325,851 US gallons. Siberia’s Lake Baikal contains about 6,276,367,740,000,000 gallons of freshwater – nearly 1 million gallons for every living person on earth.
The other – and more widely used – measure of a lake’s size is the lake’s surface acreage. By that measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is North America’s Lake Superior.
Note: In the United States, an acre foot is a unit of volume used to refer to large-scale bodies of water. It is defined by the volume of water needed to cover 1 acre of surface area to a depth of 1 foot.
You can find many of the the world’s largest lakes (by water volume) on LakeLubbers. Note: For some lakes, the water volume data is unknown or does not apply, so you may see fewer lakes than the total 7 articles we have published for Historic High Country Region, GA lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US South Region > Georgia > Historic High Country Region, GA > Compared by water volume. This list does not represent all lakes in Historic High Country Region, GA, only the 7 Historic High Country Region, GA lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Water vol. in ac-ft |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Carters Lake, GA (Georgia, Historic High Country Region, GA, US South Region, USA) |
383,600 ac-ft | Positioned at the south end of the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains in North Georgia, Carters Lake is a small, deep lake with a little over 60 miles of s… |
| Lake Allatoona, GA (Georgia, Historic High Country Region, GA, US South Region, USA) |
367,500 ac-ft | (Also known as Allatoona Lake) Lake Allatoona, located northwest of Atlanta, is one of the most visited Army Corps of Engineers lakes in the United States. With a shoreline of 270 m… |
| Blue Ridge Lake, GA (Georgia, Historic High Country Region, GA, US South Region, USA) |
68,550 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Blue Ridge, Blue Ridge Reservoir) Located some 90 miles north of Atlanta and near Blue Ridge, Georgia, Blue Ridge Lake has all the desirable qualities for lovers of outdoor excitement… |
