Toledo Bend Reservoir

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Toledo Bend Reservoir
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Location	Texas / Louisiana
Coordinates	31°11′47″N 93°34′20″W / 31.1965°N 93.5721°W / 31.1965; -93.5721
Lake type	reservoir
Primary inflows	Sabine River
Primary outflows	Sabine River
Basin countries	United States
Max. length	65 mi (105 km)
Max. width	10 mi (16 km)
Surface area	186,000 acres (75,000 ha)
Average depth	24 ft (7 m)
Max. depth	110 ft (34 m)
Water volume	4,477,000 acre⋅ft (5.52 km3)
Shore length1	1,264 mi (2,030 km)
Surface elevation	170 ft (52 m)
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Toledo Bend Reservoir is a reservoir on the Sabine River between Texas and Louisiana. The lake has an area of 185,000 acres (750 km²), the largest man-made body of water partially in both Louisiana and Texas, the largest in the South, and the fifth largest by surface acre in the United States.^[1] The dam is capable of generating 92 megawatts of electrical power. The dam itself is located in the northeast corner of Newton County, Texas; however, that county includes very little of the reservoir, as most of it extends northward into parts of Sabine and DeSoto parishes in Louisiana, and Sabine, Shelby, and Panola counties in Texas.