Largest lakes & reservoirs in Mid-Atlantic by water volume
This is a comparison for lakes within USA > Mid-Atlantic > - Compared by Largest Lakes - Water Volume in acre-foot.For some lakes, "Largest Lakes - Water Volume" is unknown or does not apply, so this table may display fewer lakes than the total 142 articles we have published for Mid-Atlantic lakes.
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.
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Lake name  |
Water vol. in ac-ft |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Ontario (Canada, Finger Lakes, Great Lakes, Greater Niagara, Mid-Atlantic, New York, Ontario, Thousand Islands, USA) |
1,328,025,600 ac-ft | Lake Ontario, one of the world’s five Great Lakes, weaves over state and country borders, delighting Americans, Canadians, and visiting tourists with… |
| Lake Erie (Canada, Chautauqua-Allegheny, Great Lakes, Greater Niagara, Michigan, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, New York, Northeast, Northwest, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Southeast, USA) |
391,987,200 ac-ft | Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes of North America, straddles the borders of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, and the Canadian province of Onta… |
| Lake Champlain (Adirondacks, Canada, Lake Champlain Valley, Mid-Atlantic, New England, New York, Quebec, USA, Vermont) |
20,916,400 ac-ft | Lake Champlain, straddling New York and Vermont in the USA, and Quebec in Canada, is a natural freshwater lake seated 96 feet above sea level. Briefly… |
| Seneca Lake (Finger Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New York, USA) |
12,566,054 ac-ft | Seneca Lake, one of western New York’s famous Finger Lakes, is the largest lake to be entirely contained within the borders of the state. Seneca Lake… |
| Cayuga Lake (Finger Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New York, USA) |
7,672,208 ac-ft | Cayuga Lake, located in western New York, is the second largest Finger Lake in both surface area and volume. Boasting 38.2 miles in length, 1.7 miles… |
| Lake George NY (Adirondacks, Mid-Atlantic, New York, USA) |
2,380,000 ac-ft | Sitting pretty at the base of New York’s majestic Adirondack Mountains, Lake George’s nickname is “Queen of American Lakes.” The 28,000-acre glacial l… |
| Lake St. Francis (Canada, Mid-Atlantic, New York, Ontario, Quebec, Thousand Islands, USA) |
2,269,997 ac-ft | (Also known as Lac Saint-Francois) Lake St. Francis is part of the 2,340 mile system of locks, canals, and channels that link the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence… |
| Skaneateles Lake (Finger Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New York, USA) |
1,301,206 ac-ft | Skaneateles Lake, pronounced “skany-atlas” or “skinny-atlas,” is one of New York’s famous Finger Lakes. Its name means “long lake” in one of the local… |
| Great Sacandaga Lake (Adirondacks, Capital-Saratoga, Mid-Atlantic, New York, USA) |
865,473 ac-ft | (Also known as Great Sacanadaga Reservoir) Great Sacandaga Lake, located in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, is a reservoir built to control flooding on the Hudson River and the Sacandaga… |
| Owasco Lake (Finger Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New York, USA) |
650,603 ac-ft | Owasco Lake is the sixth largest of the eleven Finger Lakes. Its name, from a Mohawk or Iroquois term, translates to “crossing.” The Finger Lakes were… |
| Conesus Lake (Finger Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New York, USA) |
586,392 ac-ft | Livingston County, New York considers Conesus Lake to be its pride and joy, the jewel of the county. Indeed, this Finger Lake’s original Seneca name m… |
| Allegheny Reservoir (Chautauqua-Allegheny, Mid-Atlantic, New York, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Wilds, USA) |
579,840 ac-ft | (Also known as Kinzua Dam Lake, Kinzua Lake, Lake Kinzua) Flowing across tree-covered hills in northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York, the Allegheny Reservoir’s 12,080 acres provide an open invit… |
