Is it true Maryland is the only US state that has no natural lakes?

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According to Geography Realm:

The only state in the US with no natural lakes is Maryland. Although Maryland has rivers and other freshwater ponds, no natural body of water is large enough to qualify as a lake. The state’s largest lakes are artificially made and include Lake Habee and Deep Creek Lake, which is Maryland’s largest inland body of water.

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It appears so. http://www.mgs.md.gov/geology/maryland_lakes_and_reservoirs.html

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It seems to be true, yes.

Natural lakes tend to form from glacial activity, which Maryland has a distinct lack of. Delaware apparently has only one small natural lake.

I was always aware that there are few natural lakes in Southern California; most of the well-known ones are reservoirs. If you exclude man-made ones, there are not many lakes in much of the southern half of the U.S.

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