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Canton Lake

Lake on Great Plains near Longdale, OK

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Canton Lake is a lake in Blaine and Dewey counties in Oklahoma, near Longdale and Canton. Its main source of water is the North Canadian River. It's about an hour away from Enid. The lake serves as a municipal water supply reservoir for the City of Oklahoma City, which pays to have water released from the lake for water supply purposes. Canton Dam was a 1948 project of the Southwestern Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The earthen structure is 68 feet (21 m) high and 15,140 feet (4,610 m) long at its crest, with a maximum storage capacity of 383,000 acre-feet. The lake has a shoreline of 45 miles (72 km). Canton is owned and operated by the Army Corps of Engineers but Oklahoma City retains the storage rights. The lake is home to several species of fish including…

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