Maryland is known for its waterways, from the Chesapeake Bay to countless rivers and streams, but there’s one distinction that surprises many people… it is the only state in the United States without any natural lakes.
According to the Maryland Geological Survey, every lake in the state was created by people by damming rivers or streams. While many bodies of water carry the word “lake” in their names, including Deep Creek Lake and Lake Habeeb, they are all manmade.
The state wasn’t always without natural lakes. During the late Pleistocene, roughly 19,000 to 14,000 years ago, a 160-acre shallow periglacial lake known as Buckel’s Bog existed in what is now Garrett County. Scientists say it formed under conditions associated with the Ice Age and eventually disappeared…