Newest reservoirs in South Dakota
This is a comparison for lakes within USA > Midwest > South Dakota > - Compared by Newest (Youngest) Reservoirs and the year it was completed.Note: For some lakes, age data is unknown or does not apply, so this table may display fewer lakes than the total 11 articles we have published for South Dakota lakes.
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Lake name  |
Completion year |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Sharpe (Great Lakes Region, Midwest, South Dakota, USA) |
1966 | Lake Sharpe, located on South Dakota Highways 50 and 47 near Chamberlain, and Reliance, is one of the four reservoirs constructed along the Missouri R… |
| Lake Oahe (Great Lakes Region, Midwest, North Dakota, South Central, South Dakota, Southwest, USA) |
1962 | Lake Oahe, named after an Oahe Indian Mission, roughly translates “a foundation” or “a place to stand on.” Spanning 231 miles from Pierre, South Dakot… |
| Lewis and Clark Lake (Lewis and Clark, Midwest, Nebraska, South Dakota, Southeast Region, USA) |
1957 | Stretching 25 miles long and straddling the Nebraska and South Dakota border, 28,000-acre Lewis and Clark Lake is the smallest of the Missouri River r… |
| Lake Francis Case (Great Lakes Region, Midwest, South Dakota, USA) |
1956 | Lake Francis Case, one of the most popular recreation spots in the Great Plains, is located along the Missouri River in south-central South Dakota. La… |
| Marindahl Lake (Midwest, South Dakota, Southeast Region, USA) |
1952 | Also known as Marindahl Reservoir Marindahl Lake, in South Dakotas’s Southeast Region, isn’t the kind of lake you’ll find on lists of the world’s greatest lakes. Indeed, you may not be… |
| Angostura Reservoir (Black Hills, Badlands & Lakes Region, Midwest, South Dakota, USA) |
1949 | Also known as Angostura Recreation Area, Lake Angostura, Angostura Lake At the fringes of the unique Black Hills, or Paha Sapa in the Lakota language, is the Angostura Reservoir. Part of the Black Hills and Badlands wester… |
| Lake Traverse (Central, Glacial Lakes & Prairies Region, Midwest, Minnesota, South Dakota, USA) |
1941 | Lake Traverse straddles the border of Minnesota’s Central tourism region and South Dakota’s northeastern Great Lakes and Prairie region. Covering more… |
| Richmond Lake (Glacial Lakes & Prairies Region, Midwest, South Dakota, USA) |
1937 | Also known as Richmond Reservoir Richmond Lake turned 75 years old in 2012. Built near Aberdeen during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression of the 1930s, Richmond Lake was one of 657 la… |
