Small Water
A lake is Small Water when its cited acreage is under 100 acres.
42 of the 100 lakes are Small Water. Size alone doesn't make a lake easy: wind, cold water and dams still matter on small lakes.
Rules can change. Each lake page shows the source and the date we checked it.
Northwest
- Number 2: Bessemer Lake Lawrence County · Northwest · 28 acres
- Number 8: Lake Pleasant Erie County · Northwest · 60 acres
- Number 9: Glade Run Lake Butler County · Northwest · 52 acres
- Number 10: Harbar Acres Lake Butler County · Northwest · 20 acres
- Number 12: Chapman Lake Warren County · Northwest · 68 acres
North Central
- Number 14: Cloe Lake Jefferson County · North Central · 27 acres
- Number 17: Parker Lake Clearfield County · North Central · 20 acres
- Number 21: Lyman Run Lake Potter County · North Central · 45 acres
- Number 22: Colyer Lake Centre County · North Central · 77 acres
- Number 24: Beechwood Lake Tioga County · North Central · 67 acres
- Number 25: Poe Lake Centre County · North Central · 25 acres
- Number 26: Little Pine Lake Lycoming County · North Central · 45 acres
Northeast
- Number 30: Stephen Foster Lake Bradford County · Northeast · 75 acres
- Number 33: Briar Creek Lake Columbia County · Northeast · 51 acres
- Number 34: Stevens Lake Wyoming County · Northeast · 62 acres
- Number 40: Stillwater Lake Susquehanna County · Northeast · 83 acres
- Number 42: Upper Woods Pond Wayne County · Northeast · 80 acres
Southwest
- Number 47: Dutch Fork Lake Washington County · Southwest · 91 acres
- Number 50: Canonsburg Lake Washington County · Southwest · 76 acres
- Number 51: Virgin Run Lake Fayette County · Southwest · 33 acres
- Number 54: Keystone Lake Westmoreland County · Southwest · 78 acres
- Number 55: Cranberry Glade Lake Somerset County · Southwest · 72 acres
- Number 56: Donegal Lake Westmoreland County · Southwest · 90 acres
- Number 58: Laurel Hill Lake Somerset County · Southwest · 63 acres
- Number 61: Duman Lake Cambria County · Southwest · 21 acres
South Central
- Number 69: Cowans Gap Lake Fulton County · South Central · 42 acres
- Number 70: Lake Perez Huntingdon County · South Central · 72 acres
- Number 71: Whipple Lake Huntingdon County · South Central · 22 acres
- Number 72: Letterkenny Reservoir Franklin County · South Central · 54 acres
- Number 74: Opossum Lake Cumberland County · South Central · 47 acres
- Number 75: Laurel Lake Cumberland County · South Central · 25 acres
- Number 76: Holman Lake Perry County · South Central · 88 acres
- Number 81: Memorial Lake Lebanon County · South Central · 85 acres
- Number 82: Stovers Lake Lebanon County · South Central · 26 acres
Southeast
- Number 85: Locust Lake Schuylkill County · Southeast · 52 acres
- Number 87: Tuscarora Lake Schuylkill County · Southeast · 96 acres
- Number 88: Kaercher Creek Lake Berks County · Southeast · 31 acres
- Number 90: Chambers Lake Chester County · Southeast · 89 acres
- Number 92: Scotts Run Lake Berks County · Southeast · 22 acres
- Number 93: Hopewell Lake Berks County · Southeast · 68 acres
- Number 97: East Bangor Lake Northampton County · Southeast · 90 acres
- Number 100: Levittown Lake Bucks County · Southeast · 20 acres
Alternates in this tier
- Alternate A5: Lake Nessmuk Tioga County · North Central · 60 acres
- Alternate A10: Harris Pond Luzerne County · Northeast · 30 acres
- Alternate A13: Fords Lake Lackawanna County · Northeast · 73 acres
- Alternate A18: Miller Pond Wayne County · Northeast · 61 acres
- Alternate A19: Long Pond Wayne County · Northeast · 81 acres
- Alternate A21: Lower Woods Pond Wayne County · Northeast · 91 acres
- Alternate A22: Hereford Manor Lake Beaver County · Southwest · 44 acres
- Alternate A27: Hemlock Lake Indiana County · Southwest · 60 acres