List of canals in the United States

USA canals circa 1825

The following is a list of canals in the United States:

Transportation canals in operation

• Augusta Canal (Georgia)
• Cal-Sag Channel (Chicago)
• Canaveral Barge Canal (Merritt Island, Florida)
• Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts, part of the ICW)
• Cape May Canal (New Jersey, part of the ICW)
• Cascade Canal (Oregon)
• Cayuga–Seneca Canal (New York)
• Chain of Rocks Canal (Illinois)
• Champlain Canal (New York)
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Maryland and Delaware, part of the Intracoastal Waterway)
• Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, part of the Illinois Waterway
• Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
• Dismal Swamp Canal (Virginia and North Carolina, part of the ICW)
• Duluth Ship Canal (Minnesota)
• Erie Canal (New York)
• Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn, New York)
• Great Lakes Waterway (borders Canada), including the Saint Marys Falls Canal
• Harlem River Ship Canal (New York)
• Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
• Industrial Canal (Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans)
• Intracoastal Waterway, includes several independent canals
  • Galveston and Brazos Canal, see also: Houston Ship Channel
  • Corpus Christi Ship Channel
• Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle)
• Louisville and Portland Canal (Kentucky)
• Mississippi River – Gulf Outlet Canal (Louisiana)
• Oswego Canal (New York)
• Point Pleasant Canal (New Jersey, part of the Intracoastal Waterway)
• Port Townsend Ship Canal (Washington)
• Portage Lake Canal (Michigan, part of Keweenaw Waterway)
• Sabine-Neches Waterway (Southeast Texas and Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana)
• Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (California)
• St. Clair Flats Canal
• St. Lawrence Seaway (New York into Canada)
• Shinnecock Canal (New York)
• Soo Locks (Michigan)
• Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal (Wisconsin)
• Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway (Mississippi/Alabama)

The United States also constructed the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.

Abandoned transportation canals

• Alexandria Canal (Virginia)
• Allegheny Portage Railroad (Pennsylvania)
• Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation (Pennsylvania)
• Bank's Canal (Virginia)
• Beardstown and Sangamon Canal (Illinois)
• Bellows Falls Canal (Vermont)
• Black River Canal (New York)
• Blackstone Canal (Rhode Island/Massachusetts)
• Brunswick–Altamaha Canal (Glynn County, Georgia)
• Cascade Locks and Canal (Oregon/Washington)
• Celilo Canal (Oregon/Washington}
• Chemung Canal (New York)
• Chenango Canal (New York)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Maryland/D.C.)
• Clinton–Kalamazoo Canal (Michigan; partially completed)
• Codorus Navigation (Pennsylvania)
• Columbia Canal (South Carolina)
• Conestoga Navigation (Pennsylvania)
• Conewago Canal (Pennsylvania)
• Cross Florida Barge Canal (partially completed)
• Culpeper Gold Mine Canal (Virginia)
• Cumberland and Oxford Canal (Maine, 1821-1873)
• Deep Run Canal (Virginia)
• Delaware and Hudson Canal (Pennsylvania/New York)
• Delaware and Raritan Canal (New Jersey)
• Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
• Des Moines Rapids Canal (Iowa)
• Enfield Falls Canal (Connecticut)
• Farmington Canal (Connecticut)
• Ficklin's Canal (Virginia)
• Fox–Wisconsin Waterway (Wisconsin) (partially restored)
• Franklin Line (Pennsylvania)
• Fredericksburg Canal (Virginia)
• Genesee Valley Canal (New York)
• Hampshire and Hampden Canal (Massachusetts)
• Hennepin Canal (Illinois)
• Hocking Canal (Ohio)
• Illinois and Michigan Canal (Illinois)
• Indiana Central Canal
• James River and Kanawha Canal (only Virginia portion completed)
• Junction Canal (New York and Pennsylvania)
• Landsford Canal (South Carolina)
• Lehigh Canal (Pennsylvania)
• Leiper Canal (Pennsylvania)
• Little Falls Canal
• Love Canal (New York)
• Main Line of Public Works (Pennsylvania)
• Miami Canal (Florida)
• Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)
• Middlesex Canal (Massachusetts)
• Milan Canal
• Morris Canal (New Jersey)
• Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio)
• Pawtucket Canal (Massachusetts)
• Pennsylvania Canal
• Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal
• Portage Canal (Wisconsin)
• Powell's Canal (Virginia)
• Rapidan Dam Canal of the Rappahannock Navigation (Virginia)
• Sandy and Beaver Canal (Pennsylvania and Ohio)
• Santee Canal (South Carolina)
• Savannah Ogeechee Canal (Georgia)
• Schuylkill Navigation (Pennsylvania)
• Skinker's Canal (Virginia)
• Snake Castle Canal (Virginia)
• South Hadley Canal (Massachusetts)
• Spring Valley Canal (Virginia)
• Susquehanna Canal (Maryland)
• Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal (Pennsylvania and Maryland)
• Suwanee Canal (Georgia)
• Taylor's Canal (Virginia)
• Union Canal (Pennsylvania)
• Wabash and Erie Canal (Ohio/Indiana)
• Walhonding Canal (Ohio)
• Warren County Canal (Ohio)
• Washington City Canal (District of Columbia)
• Wheatley's Canal (Virginia)
• Whitewater Canal (Indiana)
• Wiconisco Canal (Pennsylvania)

Irrigation, industrial and drainage canals

Arizona

• Central Arizona Project
• Salt River Project Canals
  • Arizona Canal

California

• All-American Canal
• Beardsley Canal
• Buena Vista Canal
• California Aqueduct
• Calloway Canal
• Carrier Canal
• Coachella Canal
• Colorado River Aqueduct
• Contra Costa Canal
• Delta–Mendota Canal
• Eastside Canal
• Friant-Kern Canal
• Inter-California Canal
• Kern Island Canal
• Los Angeles Aqueduct
• Madera Canal
• Pioneer Canal
• Stine Canal

Florida

• Hillsboro Canal
• Miami Canal
• North New River Canal
• St. Lucie Canal
• Tamiami Canal
• West Palm Beach Canal

Louisiana

• 17th Street Canal
• Carondelet Canal
• Florida Canal
• London Avenue Canal
• New Orleans Outfall Canals
• Orleans Canal
• Washington-Palmetto Canal

Massachusetts

• Holyoke Canal System

Michigan

• Edison Sault Power Canal

Nebraska

• Loup Canal (Nebraska)

New Jersey

• Dundee Canal

Texas

• American Canal
• Franklin Canal
• Riverside Canal (El Paso) (Texas)
• Texas Irrigation Canals

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.

Canals in each State
State	Number of canals	Ref.	State	Number of canals	Ref.
Alabama	21	[1]	Montana	858	[2]
Alaska	23	[3]	Nebraska	209	[4]
Arizona	289	[5]	Nevada	263	[6]
Arkansas	6	[7]	New Hampshire	10	[8]
California	2,903	[9]	New Jersey	41	[10]
Colorado	1,888	[11]	New Mexico	69	[12]
Connecticut	8	[8]	New York	116	[13]
Delaware	54	[14]	North Carolina	151	[15]
Florida	245	[16]	North Dakota	69	[17]
Georgia	25	[18]	Ohio	22	[19]
Hawaii	125	[20]	Oklahoma	9	[21]
Idaho	1,540	[22]	Oregon	661	[23]
Illinois	278	[24]	Pennsylvania	11	[25]
Indiana	2,239	[26]	Rhode Island	3	[8]
Iowa	299	[27]	South Carolina	33	[28]
Kansas	27	[29]	South Dakota	91	[30]
Kentucky	62	[31]	Tennessee	61	[32]
Louisiana	45	[33]	Texas	299	[34]
Maine	7	[8]	Utah	575	[35]
Maryland	44	[36]	Vermont	1	[8]
Massachusetts	26	[8]	Virginia	59	[37]
Michigan	1,668	[38]	Washington	237	[39]
Minnesota	1,451	[40]	West Virginia	2	[41]
Mississippi	185	[42]	Wisconsin	89	[43]
Missouri	287	[44]	Wyoming	1085	[45]
Total canals	18,241

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See also

• List of canals
• Sheep Creek