List of canals in the United States
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The following is a list of canals in the United States:
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[edit] Transportation canals in operation
- Augusta Canal
- Cal-Sag Channel (Chicago)
- Canaveral Barge Canal (Merritt Island, Florida)
- Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts, part of the ICW)
- Cape May Canal (New Jersey, part of the ICW)
- Cascades Canal
- Cayuga-Seneca Canal
- Champlain Canal
- Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Maryland and Delaware, part of the ICW)
- Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, part of the Illinois Waterway
- Dismal Swamp Canal (Virginia and North Carolina, part of the ICW)
- Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
- Erie Canal (New York)
- Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn)
- Great Lakes Waterway, (borders Canada) including the Saint Marys Falls Canal
- Harlem River Ship Canal
- Inland Waterway
- Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
- Industrial Canal (Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans)
- Intracoastal Waterway, includes several independent canals
- Galveston and Brazos Canal, see also: Houston Ship Channel
- Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle)
- Louisville and Portland Canal
- Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (Louisiana)
- Oswego Canal
- Point Pleasant Canal (New Jersey, part of the ICW)
- Port Townsend Ship Canal
- Portage Lake Canal
- Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel
- Soo Locks
- St. Clair Flats Canal
- St Lawrence Seaway
- Shinnecock Canal
- Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
The United States also constructed the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.
[edit] Abandoned transportation canals
- Alexandria Canal (Virginia)
- Allegheny Portage Railroad
- Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation (Pennsylvania)
- Bank's Canal (Virginia)
- Beardstown and Sangamon Canal
- Bellows Falls Canal
- Blackstone Canal (Rhode Island/Massachusetts)
- Brunswick-Altamaha Canal (Glynn Co., Georgia)
- Cascade Locks and Canal
- Celilo Canal
- Chemung Canal (New York)
- Chenango Canal (New York)
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
- Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal (partially completed)
- Codorus Navigation (Pennsylvania)
- Columbia Canal (South Carolina)
- Conewago Canal (Pennsylvania)
- Culpeper Gold Mine Canal (Virginia)
- Conestoga Navigation (Pennsylvania)
- Cross-Florida Barge Canal (partially completed)
- Cumberland and Oxford Canal (Maine 1821-1873)
- Deep Run Canal (Virginia)
- Delaware and Hudson Canal
- Delaware & Raritan Canal (New Jersey)
- Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
- Des Moines Rapids Canal
- Enfield Falls Canal (Connecticut)
- Fredericksburg's Canal (Virginia)
- Ficklin's Canal (Virginia)
- Fox-Wisconsin Waterway (Wisconsin) (partially restored)
- Farmington Canal (Connecticut)
- Franklin Line (Pennsylvania)
- Genesee Valley Canal (New York)
- Hampshire and Hampden Canal (Massachusetts)
- Hennepin Canal
- Hocking Canal
- Illinois and Michigan Canal
- Indiana Central Canal
- James River and Kanawha Canal (only Virginia portion completed)
- Junction Canal (New York and Pennsylvania)
- Landsford Canal (South Carolina)
- Lehigh Canal (Pennsylvania)
- Leiper Canal (Pennsylvania)
- Little Falls Canal
- Love Canal
- Main Line of Public Works (Pennsylvania)
- Miami Canal
- Miami and Erie Canal olivia canal
- Middlesex Canal
- Milan Canal
- Morris Canal (New Jersey)
- Ohio and Erie Canal
- Pawtucket Canal
- Pennsylvania Canal
- Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal
- Portage Canal
- Powell's Canal (Virginia)
- Rapidan Canal of The Rappahannock Navigation Virginia
- Sandy and Beaver Canal (Pennsylvania and Ohio)
- Santee Canal
- Savannah Ogeechee Canal
- Schuylkill Navigation (Pennsylvania)
- Skinker's Canal (Virginia)
- Snake Castle Canal (Virginia)
- South Hadley Canal
- Spring Valley Canal (Virginia)
- Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal (Pennsylvania and Maryland)
- Susquehanna Canal (Maryland)
- Suwanee Canal
- Taylor's Canal (Virginia)
- Union Canal
- Wabash and Erie Canal
- Walhonding Canal
- Washington City Canal
- Warren County Canal (Ohio)
- Wheatley's Canal (Virginia)
- Whitewater Canal (Indiana)
- Wiconisco Canal (Pennsylvania)
[edit] Irrigation, industrial and drainage canals
- All-American Canal
- American Canal
- Arizona Canal
- Beardsley Canal
- Buena Vista Canal
- California Aqueduct
- Calloway Canal
- Carrier Canal
- Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
- Coachella Canal
- Colorado River Aqueduct
- Contra Costa Canal
- Delta-Mendota Canal
- Dundee Canal (New Jersey)
- Eastside Canal
- Edison Sault Power Canal
- El Paso Canal
- Franklin Canal (Texas)
- Friant-Kern Canal
- Hillsboro Canal
- Inter-California Canal
- Kern Island Canal
- Los Angeles Aqueduct
- Loup Canal
- Madera Canal
- Miami Canal
- North New River Canal
- Riverside Canal (El Paso)
- Pioneer Canal
- Salt River Project Canals (Arizona)
- St. Lucie Canal
- Stine Canal
- Tamiami Canal
- Texas irrigation canals
- West Palm Beach Canal
[edit] Natural inlets
Lynn Canal and Portland Canal in Alaska and Hood Canal in Washington are natural inlets that use the name canal.
[edit] See also
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