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USA canals circa 1825
The following is a list of
canals in the
United States :
Transportation canals in operation
This list includes active canals and artificial waterways that are maintained for use by boats. Although some abandoned canals and drainage canals have stretches that can be paddled in a small craft, such as a
canoe , they are not included in this list.
Name
Place
State
Navigable length
Notes
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
Chesapeake
VA
8.5 mi (13.7 km)
Two canals 30 miles (48 km) apart in two states
Currituck County
NC
5.5 mi (8.9 km)
Alligator–Pungo Canal
Hyde County ,
Tyrell County
NC
22 mi (35 km)
Assawoman Canal
Sussex County
DE
4 mi (6.4 km)
Part of the
Intracoastal Waterway
Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
East Coast
Part of the
Intracoastal Waterway
Augusta Canal
Augusta ;
Columbia County
GA
6.8 mi (10.9 km)
Not navigable to other waterways
Bricktown Canal
Bricktown
OK
1 mi (1.6 km)
Has
water taxi service. Not navigable to other waterways
Barkley Canal
Lyon County
KY
1.25 mi (2.01 km)
Cal-Sag Channel
Cook County
IL
16 mi (26 km)
Part of the
Illinois Waterway
Calcasieu Ship Channel
Calcasieu Parish ,
Cameron Parish
LA
36.5 mi (58.7 km)
Canaveral Barge Canal
Merritt Island
FL
6 mi (9.7 km)
Cape Cod Canal
Barnstable County
MA
7 mi (11 km)
Part of the
Intracoastal Waterway
Cape May Canal
Cape May County
NJ
3.3 mi (5.3 km)
Part of the
Intracoastal Waterway
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
Seneca County
NY
20 mi (32 km)
Chain of Rocks Canal
Madison County
IL
9 mi (14 km)
The most downstream lock on the
Upper Mississippi River
Champlain Canal
Upstate New York
NY
60 mi (97 km)
Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Cecil County
MD
14 mi (23 km)
Part of the
Intracoastal Waterway
New Castle County
DE
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
Cook County ,
Will County
IL
28 mi (45 km)
Part of the
Illinois Waterway
Clam Lake Canal
Cadillac
MI
0.33 mi (0.53 km)
Corpus Christi Ship Channel
Corpus Christi
TX
Cumberland and Oxford Canal
Naples
ME
0.04 mi (0.064 km)
Only the
Songo Lock is still in use
Delcambre Canal
Iberia Parish
LA
12 mi (19 km)
Dismal Swamp Canal
Chesapeake
VA
22 mi (35 km)
Part of the
Intracoastal Waterway
Camden County
NC
Duluth Ship Canal
Duluth
MN
0.33 mi (0.53 km)
Erie Canal
Upstate New York
NY
363 mi (584 km)
Galveston and Brazos Canal
Brazoria County
TX
Gowanus Canal
Brooklyn
NY
1.8 mi (2.9 km)
Great Lakes Waterway
Great Lakes region
Has many branches. Reaches into
Canada
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
Gulf Coast
1,050 mi (1,690 km)
Part of the
Intracoastal Waterway
Harlem River Ship Canal
New York
NY
8 mi (13 km)
Now indistinguishable from the
Harlem River
Haulover Canal
Brevard County
FL
1.25 mi (2.01 km)
Part of the
Intracoastal Waterway
Houston Ship Channel
Houston
TX
50 mi (80 km)
Illinois Waterway
Northern and
Central Illinois
IL
336 mi (541 km)
Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
East Chicago
IN
6.75 mi (10.86 km)
Has two branches
Industrial Canal (Inner Harbor Navigation Canal)
New Orleans
LA
5.5 mi (8.9 km)
Intracoastal Waterway
3,000 mi (4,800 km)
Consists of many canals and natural waterbodies
Keweenaw Waterway
Houghton County
MI
24.5 mi (39.4 km)
Lake Washington Ship Canal
Seattle
WA
8 mi (13 km)
Lauritzen Canal
Richmond
CA
0.32 mi (0.51 km)
Lechmere Canal
East Cambridge
MA
0.2 mi (0.32 km)
Lewes and Rehoboth Canal
Sussex County
DE
9 mi (14 km)
Part of the
Intracoastal Waterway
Louisville and Portland Canal
Louisville
KY
2 mi (3.2 km)
Matagorda Ship Channel
Matagorda County
TX
2 mi (3.2 km)
McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
AR
445 mi (716 km)
Eastern Oklahoma
OK
Ogden Slip
Chicago
IL
0.35 mi (0.56 km)
Okeechobee Waterway
South Florida
FL
154 mi (248 km)
Oswego Canal
Oswego County
NY
23.7 mi (38.1 km)
Point Pleasant Canal
Point Pleasant
NJ
2 mi (3.2 km)
Part of the
Intracoastal Waterway
Port Townsend Ship Canal
Jefferson County
WA
0.9 mi (1.4 km)
Portage Lake Canal
Houghton County
MI
2.5 mi (4.0 km)
Part of
Keweenaw Waterway
Sabine–Neches Waterway
Southeast Texas
TX
64 mi (103 km)
Calcasieu Parish
LA
Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel
Solano County ,
Yolo County
CA
43 mi (69 km)
Smith Canal
Stockton
CA
2.4 mi (3.9 km)
St. Clair Flats Canal
Clay Township
MI
St. Lawrence Seaway
Jefferson County ,
St. Lawrence County
NY
370 mi (600 km)
Spans into
Canada
St. Lucie Canal (C-44)
Martin County
FL
26 mi (42 km)
Part of the
Okeechobee Waterway
Stockton Channel
Stockton
CA
2.5 mi (4.0 km)
Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel
San Joaquin County ,
Contra Costa County
CA
41 mi (66 km)
Shinnecock Canal
Hampton Bays
NY
0.9 mi (1.4 km)
St. Marys Falls Canal (Soo Locks)
Sault Ste. Marie
MI
2 mi (3.2 km)
Part of the
Great Lakes Waterway
Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
Door County
WI
1.3 mi (2.1 km)
Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway
Northeast Mississippi
MS
234 mi (377 km)
Southwest Alabama
AL
Victoria Barge Canal
Victoria County ,
Calhoun County
TX
35 mi (56 km)
West Neebish Channel
Chippewa County
MI
6 mi (9.7 km)
Part of the
Great Lakes Waterway
Wiley-Dondero Canal
St. Lawrence County
NY
9.2 mi (14.8 km)
Part of the
St. Lawrence Seaway
The
United States also built the
Panama Canal on
territory it controlled .
Abandoned transportation canals
Irrigation, industrial, and drainage canals
Arizona
California
Florida
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Michigan
Nebraska
New Jersey
Texas
Natural inlets called canals
Lynn Canal and
Portland Canal in
Alaska and
Hood Canal in
Washington are natural
inlets that use the name canal .
Canals by state
These are man made canals in each state that have been given a name and may consist of a narrow irrigation or drainage ditch to a large ship, municipal water and/or irrigation canal. States with extensive agricultural acreage may have many hundred to thousands of canals.
USGS Topographical map numbers and latitudes and longitudes of each canal, usable as inputs into Google, Bing, etc. maps, are usually given.
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