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The Mississippi River has changed course (or had new channels built) in many places since it first became a dividing line between states. As a result, some pieces of land belonging to one state are separated from the rest of it by the river's "new" channel. God bless.
CKB
The Missouri River has done the same thing. Check out the town of Carter Lake, IA.
I think Georgia is playing definition games, and just calls them all swamps or ponds or something. This is in Georgia, it's called "Ocean Pond". https://maps.google.com/maps?q=okefe...,20.07,,0,3.88
There are a dozen more just like it within a few miles of a town that is paradoxically called Lake Park, Georgia, whose Chamber of Commerce claims more than 20 lakes nearby. http://www.lakeparkga.com/
Texas has only one, and even then, it requires a creative definition of "lake".
I think Georgia is playing definition games, and just calls them all swamps. When I lived in Florida about ten miles from the Georgia line, there were natural lakes all over the place. Okefenokee sure looks like a lake to me. This is in Georgia, it's called "Ocean Pond". https://maps.google.com/maps?q=okefe...,20.07,,0,3.88
There are a dozen more just like it within a few miles of a town that is paradoxically called Lake Park, Georgia.
Ocean Pond, huh? What'd they do, have a contest on how to best describe a body of water without calling it a lake?
Ocean Pond, huh? What'd they do, have a contest on how to best describe a body of water without calling it a lake?
Ocean Pond (and surrounding ponds) are not lakes by definition. Lakes have an aquifer and an outflow point. Ponds are simply a low area that retains water. Without rainfall or water supplement from an artesian well, a pond in this state would probably dry up.
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