List of lakes of New Hampshire

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This is a list of lakes and ponds in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services lists 944 lakes and impoundments in their Official List of Public Waters. [1] The water bodies that are listed include natural lakes and reservoirs, including areas on rivers impounded behind dams.

Wikipedia articles have been written about the following New Hampshire lakes. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.

LakeTown(s) or cityArea (acres) [2] Area (hectares)
Akers Pond Errol 276.3111.8
Armington, Lake Piermont 152.261.6
Arlington Mill Reservoir Salem 268.6108.7
Ashuelot Pond Washington 367.8148.9
Ayers Island Reservoir Bristol, Bridgewater, New Hampton 500.0202.3
Baboosic Lake Amherst, Merrimack 228.592.5
Back Lake Pittsburg 347.7140.1
Balch Pond/Stump Pond Wakefield, NH; Newfield, ME; Acton, ME 570.7230.9
Baxter Lake Farmington, Rochester 302.1122.3
Bellamy Reservoir Madbury, Dover 382.2154.7
Bow Lake Strafford, Northwood 1,160.7469.7
Broad Bay Freedom, Effingham 463.8187.7
Canaan Street Lake Canaan 303.0122.6
Canobie Lake Windham, Salem 373.4151.1
Cedar Pond Milan 7832
Chocorua Lake Tamworth 22290
Christine Lake Stark 19780
Cobbetts Pond Windham 302.1122.3
Comerford Reservoir Monroe, NH; Littleton, NH; Barnet, VT; Waterford, VT 1,093.0442.3
Contoocook Lake Jaffrey, Rindge 322.9130.7
Conway Lake Conway, Eaton 1,299.0525.7
Country Pond Kingston, Newton 255.0103.2
Crystal Lake Enfield 404.4163.7
Crystal Lake Gilmanton 440.9178.4
Crystal Lake Manchester 18.67.5
Dan Hole Pond Ossipee, Tuftonboro 443.3179.4
Deering Reservoir Deering 315.4127.6
Dublin Pond Dublin 24097
Eastman Pond Grantham, Enfield 335.0135.6
Echo Lake Franconia 38.215.5
Echo Lake Conway 15.76.4
First Connecticut Lake Pittsburg 3,071.01,242.8
Fourth Connecticut Lake Pittsburg 1.80.74
Francis, Lake (Murphy Dam) Pittsburg, Clarksville 1,933.8782.6
Franklin Pierce Lake Hillsborough, Antrim 483.4195.6
Goose Pond Canaan, Hanover 624.6252.8
Grafton Pond Grafton 321.0129.9
Granite Lake Nelson, Stoddard 232.594.1
Great East Lake Wakefield, NH; Acton, ME 1,829.6740.4
Great Pond Kingston 268.0108.5
Greenough Pond Wentworth Location 23495
Halfmoon Lake Barnstead, Alton 282.4114.3
Harrisville Pond Harrisville 13856
Highland Lake Stoddard, Washington 712.0288.1
Hopkins Pond (Adder Pond) Andover 2711
Horn Pond Wakefield, NH; Acton, ME 22792
Island Pond Stoddard 17972
Island Pond Derry, Hampstead, Atkinson 531.6215.1
Ivanhoe, Lake Wakefield 6828
Jenness Pond Northwood, Pittsfield 266.9108.0
Kanasatka, Lake Moultonborough 371.0150.1
Lakes of the Clouds Sargent's Purchase 0.60.24
Little Squam Lake Ashland, Holderness 408.1165.1
Little Sunapee Lake New London, Springfield 472.0191.0
Locke Lake Barnstead 14960
Lonesome Lake Lincoln 12.24.9
Lovell Lake Wakefield 538.0217.7
Mascoma Lake Enfield, Lebanon 1,165.3471.6
Massabesic Lake Auburn, Manchester 2,561.41,036.6
Massasecum, Lake Bradford 401.7162.6
McIndoes Reservoir Monroe, NH; Barnet, VT 545.0220.6
Mendums Pond Barrington, Nottingham 252.7102.3
Merrymeeting Lake New Durham 1,233.0499.0
Milton Pond Milton, NH; Lebanon, ME 270.5109.5
Mirror Lake Tuftonboro 332.8134.7
Monomonac, Lake Rindge, NH; Winchendon, MA 593.8240.3
Moore Reservoir Littleton, NH, Dalton, NH; Waterford, VT; Concord, VT 3,490.01,412.3
Newfound Lake Bristol, Hebron, Alexandria 4,450.71,801.2
Northeast Pond Milton, NH; Lebanon, ME; Acton, ME 682.7276.4
Northwood Lake Northwood, Epsom 653.0264.3
Nubanusit Lake Nelson, Hancock 715.0289.3
Opechee Bay Laconia 449.0181.7
Ossipee Lake Ossipee, Freedom 3,245.31,313.4
Paugus Bay Laconia 1,220.0493.7
Pawtuckaway Lake Nottingham 783.4317.0
Pearly Lake Rindge 191.577.5
Pemigewasset Lake New Hampton, Meredith 255.8103.5
Penacook Lake Concord 360.0145.7
Pine River Pond Wakefield 570.4230.8
Pleasant Lake Deerfield 479.0193.8
Pleasant Lake New London 606.0245.2
Pontook Reservoir Dummer 280.0113.3
Potanipo Pond Brookline 136.255.1
Powder Mill Pond Bennington, Hancock, Greenfield 435.0176.0
Powwow Pond Kingston, East Kingston 285.3115.5
Profile Lake Franconia 135.3
Province Lake Wakefield, NH; Effingham, NH; Parsonsfield, ME 967.1391.4
Sebbins Pond Bedford 208.1
Second Connecticut Lake Pittsburg 1,102.1446.0
Silver Lake Harrisville, Nelson 332.7134.6
Silver Lake Hollis 3916
Silver Lake Madison 969.4392.3
Skatutakee Lake Harrisville 22892
Solitude, Lake Newbury 4.61.9
Spofford Lake Chesterfield 738.8299.0
Squam Lake Holderness, Center Harbor, Moultonborough, Sandwich 6,790.72,748.2
Stinson Lake Rumney 350.0141.6
Success Pond Success 290.0117.4
Sunapee, Lake Sunapee, New London, Newbury 4,136.21,673.9
Suncook Lakes Barnstead 697.0282.1
Sunrise Lake Middleton 256.9104.0
Sunset Lake Alton, Gilmanton 252.7102.3
Surry Mountain Lake Surry 265.0107.2
Swains Lake Barrington 348.8141.2
Tarleton, Lake Piermont, Warren 334.3135.3
Third Connecticut Lake Pittsburg 23193
Thorndike Pond Jaffrey, Dublin 248.7100.6
Turkey Ponds Concord 339.0137.2
Tuxbury Pond South Hampton, NH; Amesbury, MA 11948
Umbagog Lake Errol, NH; Cambridge, NH; Upton, ME; Magalloway, ME 7,538.93,051.0
Waukewan, Lake Meredith, New Hampton 928.3375.7
Weare Reservoir Weare 279.1113.0
Webster Lake Franklin 612.0247.7
Wentworth, Lake Wolfeboro 3,115.61,260.9
White Oak Pond Holderness 291.0117.8
Wicwas, Lake Meredith 350.1141.7
Willard Pond Antrim 108.044.0
Winnipesaukee, Lake Laconia, Gilford, Meredith, Center Harbor,
Moultonborough, Tuftonboro, Wolfeboro, Alton 		44,586.018,043.1
Winnisquam, Lake Tilton, Belmont, Sanbornton, Laconia, Meredith 4,237.51,714.9

References

  1. ↑ "Official List of Public Waters" (PDF). New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Water Division: Dam Bureau. October 9, 2020. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  2. ↑ "GRANITview mapping system". NH GRANIT statewide GIS. Retrieved January 7, 2013. (for corrections to some lake area figures)
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