How many salt water lakes are there in the united states?

Question

How many salt water lakes are there in the united states?

Answer 1

There is only one that I am aware of, The Great Salt Lake in Utah.

The Great Salt Lake is located in Utah and lies within the Great Basin, an inland water drainage area that encompasses most of Nevada and parts of Utah, Oregon, Idaho, and California. The Great Salt Lake is the remnant of Lake Bonneville, the largest of many lakes formed in the region when retreating ice sheets melted at the end of the last Ice Age. The Great Salt Lake acquired its name because its water has a high salt content. The lake receives mountain runoff that carries suspended salts, and it has no outlet to the ocean because high mountains surround the Great Basin. The streams and rivers that replenish the Great Salt Lake flow only intermittently. The Great Salt Lake varies substantially in size, depending on precipitation, the amount of runoff that replenishes the lake, and the amount of water that is pumped out for irrigation.

Answer 2

Not too many. I believe 2-3.

Answer 3

North America

Great Salt Lake, Satellite photo (2003) after five years of drought

Great Salt Lake, Satellite photo (2003) after five years of drought

    * The Valley of Mexico. In Pre-Columbian times, the Valley was substantially covered with five lakes, including Lake Texcoco, Lake Xochimilco, and Lake Chalco.

    * Crater Lake in Oregon

    * Devil's Lake (North Dakota)

    * Devil's Lake (Wisconsin)

    * The Great Divide Basin in Wyoming, a small endorheic basin that straddles the Continental Divide.

    * The Great Basin, which covers much of Nevada and Utah, includes:

          o The Black Rock Desert in Nevada, location of the Thrust2 and ThrustSSC landspeed record runs, and the annual home to the Burning Man festival

          o Death Valley in California and Nevada, the lowest land point in the United States

          o Groom Dry Lake in Nevada, location of the secret Area 51 base

          o Utah’s Great Salt Lake, the largest terminal lake in the Western Hemisphere

          o Salton Sea in California, a lake accidentally created in 1905 when irrigation canals ruptured, filling a desert endorheic basin and recreating an ancient saline sea

          o Utah’s Sevier Lake

          o Pyramid Lake in Nevada

          o Mono Lake in California

    * Rogers Lake, at Edwards Air Force Base in California

    * Tulare Lake, an endorheic basin at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley fed by the Kern River; since the late 19th century the lake bed has been reclaimed and used as farmland, though it occasionally floods when rainfall is especially heavy

    * New Mexico has a number of desert endorheic basins including:

          o The Tularosa Basin, a rift valley;

          o Zuni Salt Lake, a maar;

    * Bolsón de Mapimí, in northern Mexico;

    * Guzmán Basin, in northern Mexico southwestern New Mexico;

    * Lago de Atitlán, in the highlands of Guatemala; a few of these are in mexico but you can easily eliminate those.