Largest lakes & reservoirs in Central Missouri 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 3 articles we have published for Central Missouri lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US Midwest Region > Missouri > Central Missouri > Compared by water volume. This list does not represent all lakes in Central Missouri, only the 3 Central Missouri lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Water vol. in ac-ft |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Lake of the Ozarks, MO (Central Missouri, Missouri, US Midwest Region, USA) |
2,000,000 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Ozark) Painting plains of central Missouri a liquid blue, Lake of the Ozarks snakes its way through the landscape. Just 180 miles from St. Louis and 170 mile… |
| Harry S. Truman Lake, MO (Central Missouri, Missouri, US Midwest Region, USA) |
1,181,640 ac-ft | (Also known as Harry S. Truman Reservoir, Truman Lake) It looks a like a reel of film perched on a bluff; it is the visitor center overlooking Truman Lake. The round wall of windows offers a panoramic view… |
| Pomme de Terre Lake (Central Missouri, Missouri, US Midwest Region, USA) |
243,000 ac-ft | (Also known as Pomme De Terre Reservoir) One of Missouri’s lesser-known recreational destinations is Pomme De Terre Lake. Construction of this reservoir was completed in 1961, although it had… |