This a partial list of prehistoric lakes. Although the form of the names below differ, the lists are alphabetized by the identifying name of the lake (e.g., Algonquin for Glacial Lake Algonquin). YBP = Years Before Present.
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Champlain Sea; 11,800 – 8,200 YBP on the lower St. Lawrence, from Ottawa River to the Gulf of St. Lawrence<ref name=UWGB>Web animation; University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; 2001</ref><ref>Barnett, P.J. 1988. History of the northwestern arm of the Champlain Sea. Pp 25-36 in Gadd, N.R. (ed.) The Late Quaternary Development of the Champlain Sea Basin. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 36. Map 5.</ref>
Lake Admiralty; 10,000 YBP<ref>Postglacial chronology and the origin of deep lake basins in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Conference on Great Lakes Research, 1964 - International Association for Great Lakes Research; Terasmae, E Mirynech; 1964</ref>
Lake Frontenac; 12,000 – 11,000 YBP<ref>"Glacial Lake Outflow via the St. Lawrence Pathway Prior to the Champlain Sea Invasion and During the Younger Dryas"; American Geophysical Union; Occhietti, S.; Anderson, T. W.; Karrow, P. F.; Lewis, M. C.; Mott, R. J.; Parent, M.; Richard, P. J.; Rodrigues, C. G.; Stea, R.; 2005; Retrieved 2009-10-15.</ref> covering the Ontario basin and to the northeast up the St. Lawrence Valley covering the low lands north to the Ottawa River and Montreal.<ref name=UWGB/>
Glacial Lake Iroquois; 13,000 – 10,500 YBP<ref>Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch; Richard Foster Flint; 2008-11; Retrieved 2009-09-26.</ref> and covered all of the Ontario basin and southward across central New York, reaching to the Finger Lakes.<ref name=UWGB/>
Finger Lakes of New York plus 12 minor lakes<ref name=Fairchild>Glacial Lakes of Western New York; H.L. Fairchild; Bulletin of the Geological Society of America; Vol. 6, PP, 353-274, Pls. 18-23; Rochester, New York; April 12, 1895</ref>
Dansville Lake in the Canaseraga valley<ref name=Fairchild/>
Lake Lundy; 2,000 YBP<ref name=Hansen>The History of Lake Erie; Michael C. Hansen; Ohio Geology Newsletter; Div of Geological Survey, State of Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; 1989</ref> in Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, and New York
Lake Tonawanda; 10,000 YBP<ref>Ernest H. Muller (1977), Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Environments in Western New York; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 288 (1), 223–233. 1977</ref> in western New York
Lake Wayne; ended by 12,000 YBP<ref name=Hansen/> in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, expanding from Lake Warren to cover most of the Erie basin<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Warren; 12,700 YBP<ref name=Hansen/> in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, covering southern portion of the basin<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Whittlesey; 13,000 – 12,700 YBP<ref name=Hansen/> in Ohio, Ontario, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. It covered the western half of the Erie basin and north over southwest Ontario to the tip of Lake Huron.<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Arkona; 13,600 – 13,200 YBP<ref name=Hansen/> in Ohio, Ontario, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Covered two-thirds of the Erie basin, north across southwest Ontario to include the southern tip of Lake Huron, the ‘thumb’ of Michigan and low lands south and west of Saginaw Bay.<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Maumee; 14,000 – 13,000 YBP<ref name=Hansen/> in Ohio, Ontario and Michigan. The western basin reaching to Fort Wayne, Indiana.<ref name=UWGB/>
Nipissing Great Lakes; 5,500<ref name=seagrant>Reconstruction Low Lake Levels of Lake Michigan; Timothy Fisher; University of Toledo; Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program; University of Illinois; Urbana, IL; 2006</ref> - 4,500 YBP<ref name=Larsen>Geological History of Glacial Lake Algonquin and the Upper Great Lakes; Curtis E. Larsen; U.S. Geological Survey bulletin; 1801; United States Government Printing Office; Washington, D.C.; 1987</ref>
Lake Nipissing; 8,400 – 5,500 YBP formed as the water bodies in the Superior and Huron basins merged across Sault Ste. Marie around 8,400 YBP and then merged with the Michigan basin around 7,800.<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Stanley-Hough; 8,700 YBP, the water levels had risen to connect both Lake Stanley and Lake Hough into a single body of water.<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Stanley; 9,000 YBP<ref name=UWGB/> covered only the northern and eastern portion of the main Huron basin with channels into Lake Hough.<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Nipissing; 8,400 – 5,500 YBP formed as the water bodies in the Superior and Huron basins merged across Sault Ste. Marie around 8,400 YBP and then merged with the Michigan basin around 7,800.<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Chippewa; 10,700 – 7,500 YBP,<ref name=UWGB/> covered the lowest elevations in the Lake Michigan basin forming a linear lake in the middle, linked by a narrow proto-Straits of Mackinac and the Mackinac Falls to Lake Stanley.<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Chicago; 14,000 – 11,000 YBP<ref name=UWGB/> along the southern shore and growing slowly northward.
Precursor Lakes, before the formation of basin wide bodies of water.<ref name=Leverett154>Professional Paper 154—A, Moriaines and Shore Lines of Lake Superior Basin: Frank Leverett; United States Government Printing Office, Washington; February 9, 1929; (Pages 1-72)</ref>
Nipissing Great Lakes: 8,400 – 5,500 YBP formed as the water bodies in the Superior and Huron basins merged across Sault Ste. Marie around 8,400 YBP and then merged with the Michigan basin around 7,800.;<ref name=UWGB/> - 5,500;<ref name="seagrant"/> - 4,500 YBP<ref name=Larsen/>
Fenton Lake; 9,500 YBP occupied a shallow basin in the eastern side of Lake Superior after Lake Minong had shrunk below rock sills internal to the lake basin.<ref>A late Lake Minong transgression in the Lake Superior bain as documented by sediments from Fenton Lake, Ontario; Andy Breckenridge, Thomas V. Lowell, Timothy G. Fisher, Shiyong Yu; Springer Science +Business Media B.V.; 2010</ref>
Lake Minong; 10,300 – 9,800 YBP <ref name=Huber>"Post-Valders Lake Stages in the Lake Superior Basin", in Glacial and Postglacial Geologic History of Isle Royale National Park, Michigan by N. King Huber, USGS Geological Survey Professional Paper 754-A</ref> covering most of the modern Superior basin.<ref name=UWGB/>
Post-Duluth Lake; 10,600 YBP<ref name=UWGB/> along the Wisconsin and Michigan shore, reaching less than halfway across the basin.<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Duluth; 11,500 – 11,000 YBP<ref name=Huber/> in the western half of the Superior basin.<ref name=UWGB/>
Glacial Lake St. Louis occupied St. Louis Bay at the southern tip of modern Lake Superior.
Lake Keweenaw; 12,500 – 12,000 YBP<ref name=UWGB/> in the western Superior basin.<ref name=UWGB/>
Lake Coos on the border of Vermont and New Hampshire.<ref name=tuft/>
Lake Connecticut; 20,000 – 18,000 YBP, covered Long Island Sound.<ref name=USGS81-3>U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-002; Geological Framework Data from Long Island Sound, 1981-1990: A Digital Data Release; CERC Technical Report 81-3; Sand Resources and Geological Character of Long Island Sound; S. Jeffress Williams; 1981</ref>
Glacial Lake Hitchcock; 15,000 YBP in the valley of the Connecticut River.<ref name=tuft/>
Lake Baroda in Michigan on the lower St. Joseph River.<ref name=conference>Using The Fluvial-Lacustrine Interface In A Glaciodeltaic Deposit To Redefine The Valparaiso Moraine, Berrien County, Michigan, USA
Kincare, K.A., Michigan Geological Survey Stone, B.D., and Newell, W.L., U.S. Geological Survey; 7thInternational Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology –Lincoln, Nebraska; ca 2000</ref>
Lake Kankakee; 13,600 – 13,200 YBP<ref name=Barrett>Dunes of Northwestern Indiana; Edward Barrett; Forty First Annual Report of Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana; pg 11-22; Fort Wayne Printing Company; 1916</ref>
Glacial Lake Ottawa in Illinois on the upper Illinois River.<ref name=fieldguide>Earth Science Field Trip, Guide Leaflet, Kankakee Area, May 18, 1957; John C. Frye; State Geological Survey; Urbana, Illinois;l 1957</ref>
Lake Upham north of Duluth, Minnesota.<ref>Waters, Thomas F. (1977). The Streams and Rivers of Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press</ref>
Lake Aitkin along the Mississippi River near Grand Rapids, Minnesota.<ref name=OjakMat>Ojakangas, Richard W.; Matsch, Charles L (1982). Minnesota's Geology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.</ref>
Lake Oshkosh; 13,600 - YBP.<ref name=UWGB/> on the central Wisconsin River.<ref name=UWGB/>
Glacial Lake Wisconsin; 18,000 – 14,000 YBP in Wisconsin along the Wisconsin River.<ref>Dott, Robert H., Jr; John W. Attig (2004). Roadside Geology of Wisconsin. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company. pp. 199-205.</ref>
Glacial Lake Great Falls; 17,000 – 13,000 YBP<ref>Montagne J.L. "Quaternary System, Wisconsin Glaciation." Geologic Atlas of the Rocky Mountain Region. Denver: Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, 1972.</ref> in Montana<ref name=Moak>Pleistocene Glaciation and Diversion of the Missouri River in Northern Montana; William Moak, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Omaha, Nebraska; ca, 1991</ref> near Great Falls, Montana.
Lake Circle in Montana,<ref>Physiography and Glacial Geology of Eastern Montana and Adjacent Areas; William C. Alden; United States Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C.; 1932</ref>
Lake Glendive in Montana<ref name=Moak/> on the Yellowstone River, upstream from its junction with the Missouri River.
Lake Crow Flies High in North Dakota between Williston and New Town.<ref name=Lewis&Clark>Geology of the Lewis and Clark Trail in North Dakota; The Missouri River</ref>
Lake Alamosa in Colorado<ref>Machette, M.N., Coates, M-M., and Johnson, M.L., 2007, 2007 Rocky Mountain Section Friends of the Pleistocene Field Trip—Quaternary geology of the San Luis Basin of Colorado and New Mexico, September 7–9, 2007: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1193, 197 p.</ref>
Lake Cabeza de Vaca in extreme southern New Mexico, United States, and northern Chihuahua, Mexico; once the ultimate destination of the Rio Grande until it was captured by the Pecos River
Lake McConnell; 11,800 – 8,400 YBP<ref>Smith, Derald G. (1994). "Glacial lake McConnell: Paleogeography, age, duration, and associated river deltas, mackenzie river basin, western Canada". Quaternary Science Reviews 13 (9-10).</ref>
Lake Agassiz; 12,875 – 8,480 YBP<ref name=Michalek>Examining the progression and termination of Lake Agassiz: Michael J. Michalek; 2013</ref> in Manitoba and Ontario, stretching south in the James River valley of North Dakota and Minnesota.
Lake Ojibway; 8,500 – 8,200 YBP<ref>Lajeunesse, P.; St-Onge, G. (2007). "Reconstruction of the Last Outburst Flood of Glacial Lake Agassiz-Ojibway in Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait". American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007. Retrieved 2012-09-24.</ref>
Lake Tacoma was at the southern end of the Vashon Glacier in Puget Sound covering Commencement Bay, extending south up the Puyallup River valley. Washington basin east of Seattle.
Lake Bonneville; 32,000 – 14,500 YBP in Utah and Idaho and Nevada.<ref>Nevada Division of State Parks: Lahontan State Recreation Area Lake Lahontan Yacht Club</ref>
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