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{{Infobox body of water
 | name = Fishtrap Lake
 | image = Fishtrap Lake snow.jpg
 | caption = Fishtrap Lake and dam during a winter storm
 | image_bathymetry = 
 | caption_bathymetry = 
 | location = [[Pike County, Kentucky]]
 | coords = {{coord|37|25|55|N|82|24|55|W|region:US-KY_type:waterbody |display=inline,title}} 
 | type = [[reservoir]]
 | inflow =  [[Levisa Fork]] of the [[Big Sandy River (Ohio River)|Big Sandy River]]
 | outflow = [[Levisa Fork]] of the [[Big Sandy River (Ohio River)|Big Sandy River]]
 | catchment = 
|pushpin_map=Kentucky
 | basin_countries = United States
 | length = 
 | width = 
 | area = {{convert|1130|acre|km2|0|adj=on}}
 | depth = 
 | max-depth = {{convert|84|ft|m}}<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.lakebrowser.com/kentucky/fishtrap_lake.asp |title = Fishing and Boating Fishtrap Lake Kentucky}}</ref>
 | volume = 
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 | elevation = {{convert|757|ft}}
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'''Fishtrap Lake''' is a {{convert|1130|acre|km2|0|adj=on}} [[reservoir]] in [[Pike County, Kentucky]]. Dedicated by President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in 1968, the lake was formed by the impounding of the [[Levisa Fork]] of the [[Big Sandy River (Ohio River)|Big Sandy River]] at the 195-foot-high '''Fishtrap Dam''' ({{coord|37|25|55|N|82|24|55|W|region:US-KY_type:landmark |name=Fishtrap Dam}}) by the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]].<ref name=kye>{{cite book |editor=Kleber, John E. |others=Associate editors: [[Thomas D. Clark]], Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter |title=''The Kentucky Encyclopedia'' |year=1992 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |location=[[Lexington, Kentucky]] |isbn=0-8131-1772-0 |chapter=Lakes}}</ref>

It is the primary attraction of [[Fishtrap Lake State Park]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kystateparks.ky.gov/stateparks/ft/index.htm |title=Fishtrap Lake State Park |publisher=Kentucky Department of Parks |date=2005-10-10 |access-date=2007-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925222554/http://www.kystateparks.ky.gov/stateparks/ft/index.htm |archive-date=2006-09-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060925222554/http://www.kystateparks.ky.gov/stateparks/ft/index.htm Fishtrap Lake - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]
* {{cite gnis|id=492142|name=Fishtrap Lake|access-date=2009-05-04}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101127163303/http://parks.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/FCB61DCB-A172-4A18-B4F3-3567AA457154/0/FishtrapLake.pdf Fishtrap Lake facilities map]

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[[Category:Infrastructure completed in 1968]]
[[Category:Reservoirs in Kentucky]]
[[Category:United States Army Corps of Engineers dams]]
[[Category:Protected areas of Pike County, Kentucky]]
[[Category:Bodies of water of Pike County, Kentucky]]
[[Category:1968 establishments in Kentucky]]


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