Newest reservoirs in
The year that a reservoir was first filled to the reservoir’s normal elevation – or the year that a natural lake was first dammed – is the determining factor in the age of the body of water. A large reservoir can take more than a year to fill after its dam is first closed. You can find many of the the world’s newest reservoirs on LakeLubbers in the comparison table below. Many of the world’s oldest reservoirs appear on the last page of that list. Note: For some lakes, the completion year data is unknown, so you may see fewer lakes than the total 2151 articles we have published for lakes.Thinking about booking a lake vacation home rental, cabin or hotel?
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Below are lakes within Compared by newest (youngest) reservoirs and the year it was completed. This list does not represent all lakes in , only the 2151 lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Completion year |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Rye Patch Reservoir, NV (Cowboy Country, NV, Nevada, US West Region, USA) |
1936 | 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… |
| Lake Darling, ND (North Dakota, Northwest Region, ND, US Midwest Region, USA) |
1936 | Lake Darling is the focal point of the Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge located in northwest North Dakota. The Refuge is beautifully situated alo… |
| Wheeler Lake, AL (Alabama, Mountains Region, AL, US South Region, USA) |
1936 | Also known as Wheeler Reservoir Wheeler Lake in northern Alabama’s Mountain Region is the state’s second-largest lake at 67,100 acres. The Tennessee Valley Authority created Wheeler… |
| Lake Mead, AZ/NV (Arizona, Las Vegas Territory, NV, Nevada, US Southwest Region, US West Region, USA, West Coast Region, AZ) |
1936 | Lake Mead is the USA’s largest man-made reservoir in amount of water it can hold. Although Lake Powell is marginally larger in acreage at full-pond, L… |
| Douthat Lake (Shenandoah Valley Region, VA, US South Region, USA, Virginia) |
1936 | 50-acre Douthat Lake (that’s “DOW-thut”) is surrounded by the beautiful Allegheny Mountains in Virginia’s 4,545-acre Douthat State Park. It’s accessib… |
| Fairy Stone Lake (Southern Virginia Region, US South Region, USA, Virginia) |
1936 | Virginia’s Fairy Stone Lake is home to “fairy stones,” unusual staurolite (iron aluminum silicate hydroxide) diamond-shaped crystals. The 168-acre lak… |
| El Vado Lake, NM (New Mexico, North-Central, NM, US Southwest Region, USA) |
1935 | Also known as El Vado Reservoir El Vado Lake, situated in New Mexico’s northern mountains, is located west of Tierra Amarilla in Rio Arriba Counnty. Surrounded by acres of mixed juni… |
| Lac Seul (Canada, Ontario, Canada) |
1935 | Also known as Lake Seul The second-largest lake entirely within Ontario, Lac Seul has somehow escaped the notice of the casual vacationer looking for a northwoods getaway. Th… |
| Loch Rannoch (Perthshire Region, Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, United Kingdom) |
1935 | Nestled in the Perth and Kinross region of the Scottish Highlands, Loch Rannoch is a glacial freshwater lake often considered to be the most beautiful… |
| Sutherland Reservoir, NE (Nebraska, Prairie Lakes Region, NE, US Midwest Region, USA) |
1935 | Also known as Sutherland Lake Sutherland Reservoir is 3,017-acre lake located just south of the town of Sutherland, Nebraska. Located in the Prairie Lakes tourism region, the lake… |
| Gantt Lake, AL (Alabama, River Heritage Region, AL, US South Region, USA) |
1935 | Also known as Gantt Reservoir Gantt Lake’s location in Alabama’s coastal plain gives it an advantage of long summers, humid and warm, and winter temperatures that remain mild. The… |
| Fletcher Pond, MI (Michigan, Northeast Michigan, US Midwest Region, USA) |
1935 | Also known as Fletcher Flooding Fletcher Pond, also known as the Fletcher Flooding, is an impoundment first created in 1935 when the Alpena Power Company dammed the Upper South Branc… |