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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, part of the ICW)
• Cape May Canal (New Jersey, part of the ICW)
• Cascades Canal
• Cayuga-Seneca Canal
• Champlain Canal
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Maryland and Delaware, part of the ICW)
• Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, part of the Illinois Waterway
• Dalles-Celilo Canal
• Dismal Swamp Canal (Virginia and North Carolina, part of the ICW)
• Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
• Erie Canal (New York)
• Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn)
• Great Lakes Waterway, (borders Canada) including the Saint Marys Falls Canal
• Harlem River Ship Canal
• Inland Waterway
• 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
• Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle)
• Louisville and Portland Canal
• Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (Louisiana)
• Point Pleasant Canal (New Jersey, part of the ICW)
• Portage Lake Canal
• St. Clair Flats Canal
• Shinnecock 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
• Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation (Pennsylvania)
• Beardstown and Sangamon Canal
• Bellows Falls Canal
• Blackstone Canal (Rhode Island/Massachusetts)
• Brunswick-Altamaha Canal (Glynn Co., Georgia)
• Cascade Locks and Canal
• Celilo Canal
• Chemung Canal (New York)
• Chenango Canal (New York)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
• Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal (partially completed)
• Codorus Navigation (Pennsylvania)
• Columbia Canal (South Carolina)
• Conewago Canal (Pennsylvania)
• Conestoga Navigation (Pennsylvania)
• Cross-Florida Barge Canal (partially completed)
• Cumberland and Oxford Canal (Maine 1821-1873)
• Delaware and Hudson Canal
• Delaware & Raritan Canal (New Jersey)
• Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
• Des Moines Rapids Canal
• Enfield Falls Canal (Connecticut)
• Fox-Wisconsin Waterway (Wisconsin) (partially restored)
• Farmington Canal (Connecticut)
• Franklin Line (Pennsylvania)
• 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)
• Junction Canal (New York and Pennsylvania)
• Landsford Canal (South Carolina)
• Lehigh Canal (Pennsylvania)
• Leiper Canal (Pennsylvania)
• Little Falls Canal
• Love Canal
• Main Line of Public Works (Pennsylvania)
• Miami Canal
• Miami and Erie Canal olivia canal
• Middlesex Canal
• Milan Canal
• Morris Canal (New Jersey)
• Ohio and Erie Canal
• Oswego Canal
• Pawtucket Canal
• Pennsylvania Canal
• Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal
• Portage Canal
• Sandy and Beaver Canal (Pennsylvania and Ohio)
• Santee Canal
• Savannah Ogeechee Canal
• Schuylkill Navigation (Pennsylvania)
• South Hadley Canal
• Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal (Pennsylvania and Maryland)
• Susquehanna Canal (Maryland)
• Suwanee Canal
• Union Canal
• Wabash and Erie Canal
• Walhonding Canal
• Washington City Canal
• Warren County Canal (Ohio)
• Whitewater Canal (Indiana)
• Wiconisco Canal (Pennsylvania)

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
• Loup Canal
• 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

Canals in the United States

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