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
• Barge Canal (Merritt Island, Florida)
• Cal-Sag Channel (Chicago)
• Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts)
• Cascades Canal
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
• Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, part of the Illinois Waterway
• Dalles-Celilo Canal
• Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
• Delaware & Raritan Canal (New Jersey)
• Erie Canal (New York)
• Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn)
• Great Lakes Waterway, (borders Canada) including the Saint Mary's Fall Ship Canal
• Inland Waterway
• Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
• Industrial Canal (Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans)
• Intracoastal Waterway, includes:
  • Galveston and Brazos Canal
  • Dismal Swamp Canal
  • The Cross-Florida Barge Canal was intended as part of the Intracoastal Waterway
• Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle)
• Louisville and Portland Canal
• Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (Louisiana)
• Portage Lake Canal
• St. Clair Flats Canal
• Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
• Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway

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

Abandoned transportation canals

• Allegheny Portage Railroad
• Beardstown and Sangamon Canal
• Bellows Falls Canal
• Blackstone Canal (Rhode Island/Massachusetts)
• Cayuga and Seneca Canal
• Champlain Canal
• Chemung Canal
• Chenango Canal
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
• Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal (only partially completed)
• Columbia Canal
• Cross-Florida Barge Canal (partially completed)
• Cumberland and Oxford Canal (Maine 1821-1873)
• Delaware and Hudson Canal
• Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
• Des Moines Rapids Canal
• Enfield Falls Canal (Connecticut)
• Farmington Canal (Connecticut)
• Genesee Valley Canal (New York)
• Hampshire and Hampden Canal (Massachusetts)
• Hennepin Canal
• Hocking Canal
• Illinois and Michigan Canal
• James River and Kanawha Canal (only Virginia portion completed)
• Landsford Canal (South Carolina)
• Lehigh Canal (Pennsylvania)
• Little Falls Canal
• Miami Canal
• Miami and Erie Canal
• Middlesex Canal
• Milan Canal
• Morris Canal (New Jersey)
• Ohio and Erie Canal
• Oswego Canal
• Pawtucket Canal
• Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works
• Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal
• Portage Canal
• Sandy and Beaver Canal
• Santee Canal
• Savannah Ogeechee Canal
• Schuylkill Navigation
• South Hadley Canal
• Suwanee Canal
• Union Canal
• Wabash and Erie Canal
• Walhonding Canal
• Warren County Canal (Ohio)
• Whitewater Canal (Indiana)

Irrigation, industrial and drainage canals

• All-American Canal
• American Canal
• California Aqueduct
• Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
• Coachella Canal
• Colorado River Aqueduct
• Contra Costa Canal
• Edison Sault Power Canal
• El Paso Canal
• Franklin Canal (Texas)
• Hillsboro Canal
• Inter-California Canal
• Los Angeles Aqueduct
• Miami Canal
• North New River Canal
• Riverside Canal (El Paso)
• Salt River Project Canals (Arizona)
• St. Lucie Canal
• Tamiami Canal
• Texas irrigation canals
• West Palm Beach Canal

Natural inlets

Lynn Canal and Portland Canal in Alaska and Hood Canal in Washington are natural inlets that use the name canal.

See also

• List of canals

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