Little Rock Lake (Benton County, Minnesota)
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Little Rock Lake is a
reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...
in Benton County,
Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...
,
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. The lake was formed in 1911 by the impounding of the
Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Ita ...
by the
Sartell Dam The Sartell Dam is a dam across the Mississippi River in Sartell, Minnesota, Sartell, Minnesota in the United States. The dam was used to generate Hydroelectricity, hydroelectric power for the adjoining Sartell Paper Mill before it burned down in ...
5 miles (8 km) downriver. Little Rock Lake was named from Little Rock Creek. The lake has two public boat access points. Water clarity in the lake is low (less than 1.5 feet) and there are almost no aquatic plants.


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Like Rock Lake Information
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Little Rock Lake Association
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