List of lakes of South Dakota

This is a list of lakes in South Dakota. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.

Name Area (acres) (hectares) Max. depth (ft) (m) County(ies) Notes Abraham Lake Marshall America Lake 12 4.9 Brule Amsden Reservoir 235 95 27 8.2 Day Anderson Lake Day Angostura Reservoir 4,612 1,866 70 21 Fall River Cheyenne River reservoir behind Angostura Dam, see Angostura Recreation Area. Antelope Lake Clark Antelope Lake 1,200 485 25 7.6 Day Bear Butte Lake Meade Located near Bear Butte, a geological laccolith feature located near Sturgis. See Bear Butte State Park. Beaver Lake 306 124 10 3.04 Minnehaha Beaver Lake 72 29 10 3.04 Yankton Belle Fourche Reservoir 8,063 3,263 55 16.7 Butte At its 1911 completion by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, Belle Fourche Dam was the largest earthen dam in the world. Big Stone Lake 12,610 5,103 16 4.8 Grant, Roberts Shared with Minnesota. See Hartford Beach State Park. Bitter Lake 9,900 4,010 24 7.3 Day Bitter Lake Miner Blue Dog Lake 1,502 607 8 2.4 Day Brant Lake 1,307 529 14 4.2 Lake Brush Lake 386 156 unknown unknown Brookings Buffalo Lake Minnehaha Buffalo Lakes Marshall Bullhead Lake Roberts Cady Lake Jerauld Capitol Lake 5 2 Hughes Cattail-Kettle Lake 2,800 1,133 unknown unknown Marshall Cavour Lake 230 93 Beadle Chain of Lakes Codington Cherry Lake Clark, Kingsbury Clear Lake 600 Deuel Clear Lake Hamlin Clear Lake 1,087 439 20 6.1 Marshall Clear Lake 472 191 11 3.35 Minnehaha Cold Brook 32 13 38 11.5 Fall River Flood-control reservoir near Hot Springs. Connors Lake Beadle Cottonwood Lake Clark Cottonwood Lake Codington Cottonwood Lake Jerauld Cottonwood Lake 350 141 12 3.6 Marshall Cottonwood Lake Spink Cottonwood Lake Sully Cottonwood Springs Fall River Flood-control reservoir near Hot Springs. Covell Lake 15 6.1 9 2.7 Minnehaha Cresbard Lake 53 21 15 4.5 Faulk Crooked Lake Grant Crystal Lake Aurora Culver Lake Deuel Shared with Minnesota Curlew Lake 136 55 22 6.7 Meade Deadmans Lake Bennett Deerfield Reservoir 90 27.4 Pennington Located within the Black Hills National Forest. Diamond Lake 256 104 12 3.65 Minnehaha Dimock Lake 148 60 18 5.4 Hutchinson Dog Ear Lake Tripp Dry Lake 2,455 993 15 4.5 Codington Dry Lake Hamlin Dumarce Lake Marshall Elm Lake Brown East 81 Lake 484 196 unknown unknown Brookings East Oakwood Lake 928 375 9 2.7 Brookings East Vermillion Lake 512 208 23 7 McCook Commonly known as Lake Vermillion Elm Lake 1,209 489 34 10.3 Brown, McPherson Enemy Swim Lake 2,146 868 26 7.9 Day Eureka Lake 225 91 15 4.5 McPherson Fish Lake Aurora Fish Lake Deuel Flat Lake Marshall Fourmile Lake Marshall Fox Lake Beadle Fox Lake Deuel Gardner Lake 203 82 10 3.04 Harding Gilman Lake Lake Goose Lake Codington Grass Lake Codington Grass Lake Minnehaha Green Lake Lake Greys Lake Marshall Heggs Lake Clark Herman Park Pond 5 2 9 2.7 Lake High Lake Marshall Horse Thief Lake Pennington Within walking distance of Mount Rushmore, located in the Black Hills National Forest. Jones Lake 100.5 40.7 7.5 2.3 Hand Kampeska Gravel Pits 30 12 21 6.4 Codington Kings Lake Codington Lacreek Lake Bennett Lake Albert Grant Lake Albert 3,699 1,497 Kingsbury Lake Albert Lincoln Lake Alice 1,116 451 12 3.6 Deuel Lake Alvin 105 42 26 7.9 Lincoln Located within Lake Alvin Recreation Area. Lake Andes Charles Mix See Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge Lake Badger Kingsbury Lake Badus Lake Lake Buffalo Ziebach Lake Byron 1,805 730 10 3.04 Beadle Lake Campbell 1,000 400 7 2.1 Brookings, Moody Lake Carthage 203 82 24 7.3 Miner Lake Cochrane 355 144 28 8.53 Deuel See Lake Cochrane Recreation Area Lake Emma Marshall, Roberts Lake Faulkton 115 46 20 6.1 Faulk Lake Francis Deuel Lake Francis Case 102,000 41,000 140 42.6 multiple Missouri River reservoir behind Fort Randall Dam Lake Goldsmith 288 117 9 2.7 Brookings Lake Hanson 55 22 17 5.2 Hanson Lake Hendricks Brookings Shared with Minnesota Lake Henry 165 66 35 11 Bon Homme Lake Henry Codington Lake Henry 2,323 940 8 2.4 Kingsbury Lake Herman 1,287 521 13 3.9 Lake See Lake Herman State Park. Lake Iroquois Kingsbury Lake Kampeska 5,250 2,120 16.4 5 Codington Lake Lakota 100 40 Lincoln Lake Lorraine2510MinnehahaIn Sioux Falls Lake Louise 163 66 25 7.6 Hand See Lake Louise Recreation Area Lake Madison Day Lake Madison 2,642 1,069 16 4.8 Lake Lake Marsh Hamlin Lake Martha Marshall Lake Mary Hamlin Lake Menno 47 19 34 10.3 Hutchinson Lake Minnewasta 601 243 14 4.2 Day Lake Mitchell 670 270 29 8.8 Davison Lake Nicholson Codington Lake Nixon Union Lake Norden 746 301 8 2.4 Hamlin Lake Oahe 312,000 126,000 205 62 multiple Missouri River reservoir behind Oahe Dam; extends into North Dakota. By volume, it is the fourth-largest reservoir in the US. Lake Oliver Deuel Lake Platte Charles Mix Lake Poinsett 7,886 3,191 22 6.7 Brookings, Hamlin Lake Preston Kingsbury Lake Saint John Hamlin Lake Sharpe 56,884 23,020 77 23.5 multiple Missouri River reservoir behind Big Bend Dam Lake Sinai Brookings Lake Tetonkaha Brookings Lake Thisted Kingsbury Lake Thompson 20,000 8,090 34 10.3 Kingsbury Lake Todd Clark Lake Traverse 11,200 4,500 Roberts Shared with Minnesota Lake Whitewood 4,677 1,893 7 2.1 Kingsbury Lake Winfred Lake Lake Yankton 250 100 18 5.5 Yankton Original river channel of the Missouri River prior to construction of Gavins Point Dam and Lewis and Clark Lake. Now a USACE Reservoir for fish and wildlife management. Shared with Nebraska.Lakota LakeCuster Leola Reservoir 23 9 12 3.6 McPherson Lewis and Clark Lake 31,400 13,000 45 13.7 Bon Homme, Yankton Missouri River reservoir behind Gavins Point Dam. Shared with Nebraska. Lone Tree Lake Clark Lone Tree Lake Deuel Long Lake Codington Long Lake Jerauld Long Lake Lake Long Lake Marshall Long Lake 400 161 10 3 McPherson Lords Lake Brown Lost Lake 163 66 Minnehaha Lynn Lake 1,390 562 25 7.6 Day Marindahl Lake 106.81 43 30 9.1 Yankton McClarem Lake Campbell McCook Lake 273 110 14 4.2 Union Medicine Lake Codington Milwaukee Lake Lake Mina Lake 806 326 27 8.2 Brown, Edmunds Minnewasta Lake Day Mud Lake Seventeen lakes in South Dakota have this name. Mutske Lake Campbell New Wall Lake 42 17 24 7.3 Pennington Newell City Pond 20 8 27 8.2 Butte Newell Lake 183 74 32 9.7 Butte Ninemile Lake Marshall North Buffalo Lake 400 161 12 3.6 Marshall North Island Lake 375 151 17 5.1 McCook, Minnehaha Oak Lake 396 160 6 1.8 Brookings Opitz Lake 1,564 632 16 4.8 Day, Marshall Pactola Lake 800 323.7 162 49.4 Pennington Largest lake in the Black Hills, constructed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation within the Black Hills National Forest. Pelican Lake 2,796 1,132 8 2.4 Codington Pelican Lake Lake Phantom Lake Bennett Pickerel Lake 981 396 41 12.4 Day Piper Lake Beadle Piyas Lake 1,500 607 13 3.9 Day, Marshall Platte Lake Aurora Plum Lake Kingsbury Punished Woman Lake 477 193 12 3.6 Codington Ravine Lake 72 29 14 4.2 Beadle Redfield Lake 170 68 12 3.6 Spink Red Iron Lake Marshall Red Lake Brule A National Natural Landmark Reid Lake 980 396 18 5.4 Clark Richmond Lake 829 335 29 8.8 Brown Round Lake 100 40 9 2.7 Clark Round Lake 1,040| Deuel Round Lake Lake Roy Lake 1,690 683 21 6.4 Marshall Rush Lake Day Salt Lake Brown Salt Lake Campbell Salt Lake Deuel Shared with Minnesota Scatterwood Lake Faulk Schmitz Lake Aurora School Lake Deuel Scotchman Lake Bennett Scott Lake Aurora Scott Lake 107 43 11 3.3 Minnehaha Shadehill Reservoir 4,693 1,899 62 18.9 Perkins Sheridan Lake 383 155 29.5 9 Pennington Located within the Black Hills National Forest. Silver Lake 393 159 7 2.1 Hutchinson Silver Lake Kingsbury Silver Lake Miner Simpson Lake Douglas Sixmile Lake 96 38 11 3.3 Marshall South Buffalo Lake 1,788 723 14 4.2 Marshall South Island Lake 91 36 16 4.8 McCook, Minnehaha South Red Iron Lake 600 242 14 4.2 Marshall Spirit Lake Kingsbury Spring Lake Kingsbury Staum Reservoir 46 19 16 4.8 Beadle Stockade Lake 120 48 15.8 4.8 Custer Located within Custer State Park, in the Black Hills. Summit Lake 174 70 13 3.9 Grant Swan Lake Clark Swan Lake Dewey Swan Lake 208 84 6 1.8 Turner Swan Lake Walworth Sylvan Lake 17 7 12.1 3.9 Custer Located within Custer State Park, in the Black Hills. Twin Lake 1,235 499 14 4.2 Spink Twin Lakes 287 116 20 6.1 Minnehaha Twin Lakes 252 101 12.5 3.8 Sanborn Twomile Lake Marshall Waggoner Lake 107 43.3 21 6.4 Haakon Wall Lake 207 84 24 7.3 Minnehaha Warner Lake Codington Waubay Lake 15,540 6,290 31 9.4 Day See Waubay National Wildlife Refuge. West 81 Lake 1,590 643 unknown unknown Kingsbury West Oakwood Lake 1,200 485 10 3.04 Brookings White Lake Aurora White Lake 187 75 20 6 Marshall Wigdale Lake Deuel Willow Lake Clark Wilmarth Lake 103 41 26 7.9 Aurora

List of lakes of South Dakota

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