Largest lakes & reservoirs in Cowboy Country, NV by acres
There is no widely-accepted minimum surface area that defines a lake. What LakeLubbers describes as a lake, you might call a pond. Acreage of a lake (or sometimes square kilometers) is most often measured at the top surface area when the lake is at normal elevation. The surface area can be considerably smaller or larger when lake levels are lower or higher than normal. North America’s Lake Superior is the world’s largest freshwater lake by this measure.The other measure of a lake’s size is the lake’s water volume. By that measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is Lake Baikal in Siberia.
You can find many of the world’s largest lakes (acres) on LakeLubbers in the comparison table below. Note: For some lakes, "Largest Lakes - Acres" data is unknown or does not apply, so you may see fewer lakes than the total 4 articles we have published for Cowboy Country, NV lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US West Region > Nevada > Cowboy Country, NV > Compared by surface area in acres. This list does not represent all lakes in Cowboy Country, NV, only the 4 Cowboy Country, NV lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Surface area in acres |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby Lake, NV (Cowboy Country, NV, Nevada, US West Region, USA) |
17,125 ac | Also known as Ruby Marsh Perhaps the last thing one would expect to find in the deserts of northeastern Nevada is a marsh. But Ruby Lake is just that: a 17,125 acre marsh and… |
| Rye Patch Reservoir, NV (Cowboy Country, NV, Nevada, US West Region, USA) |
10,820 ac | Rye Patch Reservoir is located on the Humboldt River in Pershing County, Nevada. The reservoir was completed in 1936 and provides flood control and ir… |
| Wild Horse Reservoir, NV (Cowboy Country, NV, Nevada, US West Region, USA) |
2,830 ac | Also known as Wildhorse Reservoir Wild Horse Reservoir, also known as Wildhorse Reservoir, is located along the Owyhee River in the deserts of northeastern Nevada near the Idaho border… |
| South Fork Reservoir, NV (Cowboy Country, NV, Nevada, US West Region, USA) |
1,640 ac | South Fork Reservoir is located on the south fork of the Humboldt River about 16 miles south of Elko in northern Nevada. Although the South Fork Dam w… |