List of canals in the United States

List of canals in the United States

The following is a list of canals in the United States:

Transportation canals in operation

*Augusta Canal
*Barge Canal (Merritt Island, Florida)
*Cal-Sag Channel (Chicago)
*Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts)
*Cascades Canal
*Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
*Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, part of the Illinois Waterway
*Dalles-Celilo Canal
*Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
*Delaware & Raritan Canal (New Jersey)
*Erie Canal (New York)
*Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn)
*Great Lakes Waterway, (borders Canada) including the Saint Mary's Fall Ship Canal
*Inland Waterway
*Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
*Industrial Canal (Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans)
*Intracoastal Waterway, includes:
** Galveston and Brazos Canal
** Dismal Swamp Canal
** The Cross-Florida Barge Canal was intended as part of the Intracoastal Waterway
*Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle)
*Louisville and Portland Canal
*Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (Louisiana)
*Portage Lake Canal
*St. Clair Flats Canal
*Shinnecock Canal
*Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
*Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway

The United States also constructed the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.

Abandoned transportation canals

*Allegheny Portage Railroad
*Beardstown and Sangamon Canal
*Bellows Falls Canal
*Blackstone Canal (Rhode Island/Massachusetts)
*Cayuga and Seneca Canal
*Champlain Canal
*Chemung Canal
*Chenango Canal
*Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
*Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal (partially completed)
*Columbia Canal
*Cross-Florida Barge Canal (partially completed)
*Cumberland and Oxford Canal (Maine 1821-1873)
*Delaware and Hudson Canal
*Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
*Des Moines Rapids Canal
*Enfield Falls Canal (Connecticut)
*Fox-Wisconsin Waterway (Wisconsin) (partially restored)
*Farmington Canal (Connecticut)
*Genesee Valley Canal (New York)
*Hampshire and Hampden Canal (Massachusetts)
*Hennepin Canal
*Hocking Canal
*Illinois and Michigan Canal
*James River and Kanawha Canal (only Virginia portion completed)
*Landsford Canal (South Carolina)
*Lehigh Canal (Pennsylvania)
*Little Falls Canal
*Miami Canal
*Miami and Erie Canal
*Middlesex Canal
*Milan Canal
*Morris Canal (New Jersey)
*Ohio and Erie Canal
*Oswego Canal
*Pawtucket Canal
*Pennsylvania Canal
*Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal
*Portage Canal
*Sandy and Beaver Canal
*Santee Canal
*Savannah Ogeechee Canal
*Schuylkill Navigation
*South Hadley Canal
*Suwanee Canal
*Union Canal
*Wabash and Erie Canal
*Walhonding Canal
*Warren County Canal (Ohio)
*Whitewater Canal (Indiana)

Irrigation, industrial and drainage canals

*All-American Canal
*American Canal
*California Aqueduct
*Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
*Coachella Canal
*Colorado River Aqueduct
*Contra Costa Canal
*Edison Sault Power Canal
*El Paso Canal
*Franklin Canal (Texas)
*Hillsboro Canal
*Inter-California Canal
*Los Angeles Aqueduct
*Loup Canal
*Miami Canal
*North New River Canal
*Riverside Canal (El Paso)
*Salt River Project Canals (Arizona)
*St. Lucie Canal
*Tamiami Canal
*Texas irrigation canals
*West Palm Beach Canal

Natural inlets

Lynn Canal and Portland Canal in Alaska and Hood Canal in Washington are natural inlets that use the name "canal".

ee also

*List of canals


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