Toronto Lake is a flood control
lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...
in southeast
Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...
, primarily in
Woodson County. It is located on the
Verdigris River
The Verdigris River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma in the United States. It is about long.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map ...
about southeast of
Toronto, Kansas. The lake is maintained by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A direct reporting unit (DRU), it has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, military construction, and civil wor ...
.
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History
Toronto Lake was authorized in the Flood Control Act of 1941 The Flood Control Act of 1941 was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by US President Franklin Roosevelt that authorized civil engineering projects such as dams, levees, dikes, and other flood control measures through the United S ...
. Construction started on the lake in November 1954 and it was completed in February 1960.
See also
* Cross Timbers State Park
* Fall River Lake, southwest of Toronto Lake
* List of Kansas state parks
List of state parks in the U.S. state of Kansas operated by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks:
See also
*List of U.S. national parks
*Big Basin Prairie Preserve
External linksKansas Department of Wildlife and Parks State Park Websi ...
* List of lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Kansas
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
* List of rivers of Kansas
This is a list of rivers in Kansas (U.S. state).
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Mississippi River Basin Arkansas River Basin
*Arkansas River
**Neo ...
References
External links
Toronto Lake
* Woodson County Maps
CurrentHistoric
KDOT
* Greenwood County Maps
CurrentHistoric
KDOT
Protected areas of Greenwood County, Kansas
Reservoirs in Kansas
Protected areas of Woodson County, Kansas
Bodies of water of Woodson County, Kansas
Bodies of water of Greenwood County, Kansas
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