The following is a list of canals in the United States :
This list includes active canals and artificial waterways that are maintained for use by boats. Although some abandoned canals and drainage canals have stretches that can be paddled in a small craft, such as a canoe, they are not included in this list.
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The United States also built the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.
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Behm Canal, Duncan Canal, Lynn Canal, and Portland Canal in Alaska, and Hood Canal in Washington are natural inlets that use the name canal.
These are man made canals in each state that have been given a name and may consist of a narrow irrigation or drainage ditch to a large ship, municipal water and/or irrigation canal. States with extensive agricultural acreage may have many hundred to thousands of canals. USGS Topographical map numbers and latitudes and longitudes of each canal, usable as inputs into Google, Bing, etc. maps, are usually given.
| Canals in each state | |||||
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| State | Number of canals | Ref. | State | Number of canals | Ref. |
| Alabama | 21 | [1] | Montana | 858 | [2] |
| Alaska | 23 | [3] | Nebraska | 209 | [4] |
| Arizona | 289 | [5] | Nevada | 263 | [6] |
| Arkansas | 6 | [7] | New Hampshire | 10 | [8] |
| California | 2,903 | [9] | New Jersey | 41 | [10] |
| Colorado | 1,888 | [11] | New Mexico | 69 | [12] |
| Connecticut | 8 | [8] | New York | 116 | [13] |
| Delaware | 54 | [14] | North Carolina | 151 | [15] |
| Florida | 245 | [16] | North Dakota | 69 | [17] |
| Georgia | 25 | [18] | Ohio | 22 | [19] |
| Hawaii | 125 | [20] | Oklahoma | 9 | [21] |
| Idaho | 1,540 | [22] | Oregon | 661 | [23] |
| Illinois | 278 | [24] | Pennsylvania | 11 | [25] |
| Indiana | 2,239 | [26] | Rhode Island | 3 | [8] |
| Iowa | 299 | [27] | South Carolina | 33 | [28] |
| Kansas | 27 | [29] | South Dakota | 91 | [30] |
| Kentucky | 62 | [31] | Tennessee | 61 | [32] |
| Louisiana | 45 | [33] | Texas | 299 | [34] |
| Maine | 7 | [8] | Utah | 575 | [35] |
| Maryland | 44 | [36] | Vermont | 1 | [8] |
| Massachusetts | 26 | [8] | Virginia | 59 | [37] |
| Michigan | 1,668 | [38] | Washington | 237 | [39] |
| Minnesota | 1,451 | [40] | West Virginia | 2 | [41] |
| Mississippi | 185 | [42] | Wisconsin | 89 | [43] |
| Missouri | 287 | [44] | Wyoming | 1085 | [45] |
| Total canals | 18,241 | ||||
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