Largest lakes & reservoirs in Olde English District, SC 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 5 articles we have published for Olde English District, SC lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US South Region > South Carolina > Olde English District, SC > Compared by water volume. This list does not represent all lakes in Olde English District, SC, only the 5 Olde English District, SC lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Water vol. in ac-ft |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Wateree, SC (Olde English District, SC, South Carolina, US South Region, USA) |
310,000 ac-ft | (Also known as Wateree Lake) Lake Wateree lies 30 miles northeast of Columbia, South Carolina near Interstate 77. Duke Energy created the lake in 1920 by building a dam on the Cat… |
| Fishing Creek Reservoir, SC (Olde English District, SC, South Carolina, US South Region, USA) |
59,992 ac-ft | (Also known as Nitrolee Dam, Fishing Creek Lake) Fishing Creek Reservoir, on the Catawba River in the Old English Region of South Carolina is aptly named: the 3112-acre lake provides a steady source… |
| Gaston Shoals Lake and Ninety-Nine Islands Lake (Olde English District, SC, South Carolina, US South Region, USA) |
2,500 ac-ft | (Also known as Gaston Shoals Reservior and Ninety-Nine Islands Reservoir) Gaston Shoals Lake and Ninety-Nine Islands Lake are the focal points of a 15-mile stretch of the Broad River flowing through the Olde English District… |