Massachusetts Great List Any project located in, on, over or under the water of a great is within the jurisdiction of Chapter 91. A great pond is defined as any pond or lake that contained more than 10 acres in its natural state. Ponds that once measured 10 or more acres in their natural state, but which are now smaller, are still considered great ponds.

This is a county-by-county listing of great ponds in , according to a 1996 Waterways Program Study. This listing was last revised in September 2017 (updating ponds in Hopkinton, Milford, and Upton).

Barnstable County

Barnstable:

Garretts Pond Upper Mill Pond Hamblin Pond Walkers Pond Hathaway Pond (lower portion) Long Pond Bourne: Lovell's Pond Middle Pond (Plymouth) [Added to Mystic Pond Bourne 2006] Red Lily Pond/Lake Elizabeth (added 1/30/2014) Round Pond Chatham: Rushy Marsh Pond (originally tidal) Emery Pond Wequaquet Lake (includes Bearse Pond) Goose Pond Lovers Lake Brewster: Mill Pond Schoolhouse Pond Baker's Pond Stillwater Pond Black Pond (Harwich) White Pond Blueberry pond Cahoon Pond (Harwich) Dennis: Canoe Pond Baker's Pond Cobbs Pond Eagle Pond Elbow Pond Flax Pond Flax pond Fresh Pond Grassy Pond (Harwich) Grassy Pond Greenland Pond Run Pond Griffith's Pond Scargo Pond Higgin's Pond Simmons Pond Little Cliff Pond White Pond (Harwich) Long Pond (Harwich) Lower Mill Pond Eastham: Pine Pond Seymour Pond/Bangs Pond (Harwich) Depot Pond Sheep Pond Great Pond Slough Pond Herring/Coles Pond Smalls Pond Minister Pond Smith Pond

Falmouth: Mashpee:

Ashumet Pond (Mashpee) Ashumet Pond (Falmouth) Bournes Pond Flat Pond (originally tidal) Cedar Lake Hamblin Pond (Falmouth) [Added to Mashpee Coonemossett Pond 2006] Crooked Pond Jehu Pond (originally tidal) Deep Pond Johns Pond Eel Pond Mashpee Pond Flax Pond Santuit Pond Flume Pond Wakeby Pond Fresh Pond Grews Pond Orleans: Hamblin Pond (Mashpee) Jenkins Pond Baker's Pond Jones Pond Cedar Pond Long Pond Crystal Lake/Fresh Pond Mares Pond Pilgrim Pond Mill Pond Morse Pond Provincetown: Oyster Pond Perch Pond Clapp's Pond Round Ponds Great Pond Salt Pond Shank Painter Pond Shallow Pond Shiverick's Pond Sandwich: Siders Pond Spectacle Pond Hog Pond Wings Pond Lawerence Pond Peters Pond Harwich: Snake Pond Spectacle Pond Bangs/Seymours Pond (Brewster) Triangle Pond Black Pond (Brewster) Briar Pond Truro: Bucks Pond Cahoon Pond (Brewster) Great Pond Cornelius Pond Long/Horse Leach Pond Eldridges/Walkers Pond Pilgrim Lake Flax Pond Grassy Pond (Brewster) Wellfleet: Hawks Nest Pond Hinckleys Pond Duck Pond Island Pond Great Pond Joseph's Pond Gull Pond Long Pond (Brewster) Herring Pond Oliver's Pond Paddocks Pond Long Pond Robbins Pond Sand Pond Yarmouth: Skinequit Pond Walkers Pond White Pond (Dennis) Dennis Pond Elishas Pond Flax Pond Greenough Pond Horse Pond Berkshire County Long Pond Becket: Mill Pond (at the Bass River) Centre Pond Greenwater Pond Horn Pond Rudd Pond Shaw Pond Yokum Pond

Egremont:

Prospect Lake

Florida:

North Pond

Great Barrington:

Long Pond Mansfield Pond

Lanesborough:

Pontoosic Lake (Pittsfield)

Lee:

Goose Pond (Tyringham) Laurel Lake

Monterey:

Lake Buel (New Marlborough)

New Marlborough:

East/India Pond Harmon Pond (Monterey)

Otis:

Benton Pond Big Pond Creek Pond Hayes Pond Larkum Pond Otis Reservoir (Tolland) Tucker-Haley Pond White Lily Pond Bristol County

Pittsfield: Fall River:

Silver Lake North Watuppa Pond (Westport) Onota Lake South Watuppa Pond (Westport) Goodrich Pond/Sylvan Lake Pontoosic Lake (Lanesborough) Freetown: Richmond Pond (Richmond) Long Pond (Lakeville) Richmond: New Bedford: Richmond Pond (Pittsfield) Sassaquin Pond Sandisfield: Norton: Simon Pond/Lake Marguerite Winneconnet Lake Savoy: Raynham: South Pond Gushee Pond Sheffield: Johnsons Pond Prospect Hill Pond (Taunton) Three-Mile Pond Taunton: Stockbridge: Lake Sabatia Lake Averic Prospect Hill Pond (Raynham) Stockbridge Bowl/Lake Mahkenac Watsons Pond

Tyringham: Westport:

Goose Pond (Lee) Cockeast Pond/Davol Pond (tidal) Devol Pond Washington: North Watuppa Pond (Fall River) Sawdy Pond Ashley Lake South Watuppa Pond (Fall River) Finerty Pond Muddy Pond

West Stockbridge:

Cranberry Pond Crane Pond Mud Pond Shaker Mill Pond Dukes County Essex County

Chilmark: Amesbury:

Blackpoint Pond (Merrimac) Chilmark Pond (Gay Head) Andover: (West Tisbury) Ballards Pond Edgartown: Fosters Pond Herring/Edgartown Great Pond Jobs Neck Pond Beverly: Oyster Pond Paqua Pond Beaver Pond Trapps Pond (Wenham)

Gay Head: Boxford:

Squibnocket Pond (Chilmark) Bald Plate Pond Chadwick Pond (Haverhill) Gosnold: Four-Mile Pond Hovey's Pond Quicks Hole Pond on Nashawena Island Johnson's Pond (Groveland) Westend Pond on Naushon Island Sperry Pond West End Pond on Cuttyhunk Island [added Spofford pond 2017] Stevens Pond Stiles Pond Oak Bluffs: Essex: Crystal Lake Farm Pond (Hamilton) Lake Anthony/Oak Bluffs Harbor Georgetown: West Tisbury: Pentucket Pond Homer Pond Rock Pond James Pond Long Pond/Long Cove Gloucester: Tisbury Great Pond (Chilmark) Watcha Pond Niles Pond

Groveland:

Johnson's Pond (Boxford)

Hamilton:

Beck Pond Chebacco Lake (Essex) Gravelly Pond Round Pond

Topsfield:

Haverhill: Hood Pond (Ipswich)

Chadwick Pond (Boxford) Wenham: Kenoza/Great Pond Sattonstait/Ayers Pond Coy Pond Pentucket/Little Pond Pleasant Pond Neal Pond (Merrimac) Wenham Pond (Beverly)

Ipswich:

Hood Pond (Topsfield)

Lynn:

Cedar Pond Flax Pond Spring Pond (Salem, Peabody)

Lynnfield:

Suntaug Lake (Peabody)

Merrimac:

Lake Attitash (Amesbury) Neal Pond (Haverhill)

Methuen:

Forest Lake Mystic Pond

Middleton:

Middleton Pond

North Andover:

Lake Cochichewick

Peabody:

Browns Pond Cedar Pond Spring Pond (Salem, Lynn) Suntaug Lake (Lynnfield)

Rockport:

Cape Pond

Salem:

Spring Pond (Peabody, Lynn) Franklin County

Ashfield:

Great Lake/Ashfield Lake

Erving:

Laurel Lake (Warwick)

Leverett:

Echo Lake/Leverett Pond

Montague:

Green Pond Lake Pleasant/Great Pond

Orange:

Lake Mattawa Lake Rohunta (Athol)

Shutesbury:

Lake Wyola

Sunderland:

Cranberry Pond

Warwick:

Hastings Pond Laurel Lake (Erving) Hampden County

Blandford:

Beaver Pond Long Pond

Brimfield:

Little Alum Pond Sherman Lake

Holland:

Holland Pond

Montgomery:

Shatterack Pond

Palmer:

Brown's Pond Forest Lake

Russell:

Russell Pond

Southwick:

Congamond Lake

Springfield:

Five-Mile Pond Loon Pond

Tolland:

Hall Pond Noyes Pond Otis Reservoir (Otis)

Wilbraham:

Nine Mile Pond [Added 2006] Spectacle Pond [Added 2006]

Wales:

Lake George

Hampshire County

Westfield: Belchertown:

Pequot Pond (Southampton) Lake Arcadia Horse Pond Lake Holland Buck Pond Lake Metacomet

Hadley:

Lake Warner

Huntington:

Norwich Pond

Southampton:

Pequot Pond (Westfield) Middlesex County

Acton:

Grassy Pond Nagog Pond (Littleton)

Arlington:

Fresh Pond [Removed from Arlington 2006]

Ashland:

Shakum Pond/Waushakum Pond (Framingham)

Ayer:

Long Pond Sand Pond

Belmont:

Little Pond

Billerica:

Nuttings Pond Winning Pond

Boxborough:

Muddy Pond

Cambridge:

Fresh Pond

Chelmsford:

Heart's/Baptist Pond

Concord:

Bateman's Pond White Pond

Dracut:

Peter's Pond Long Pond

Medford:

Dunstable: Lower Mystic Lake Upper Mystic Pond (Groton, Tyngsborough) Melrose: Framingham: Crystal/Ell Pond Farm Pond Gleason Pond Natick: (Natick) Waushakum/Shakum Pond (Ashland) Lake Cochituate (Framingham) Nonesuch Pond (Weston) Groton: Newton: Baddacook Pond Cow Pond Crystal Lake Knopps/Last Lake Hammonds Pond Martins Pond Massapoag Pond (Dunstable, Tyngsborough) North Reading:

Holliston: Martins Pond Swan Pond Lake Winthrop Pepperell: Hopkinton: Blood Pond/Heald Pond Lake Maspenock/North Pond (Milford, Upton) White Hall Reservoir Sherborn:

Hudson: Farm Pond Little Pond Boons Pond/Lake Boon (Stow) White Pond (Stow) Stoneham:

Lincoln: Crystal Lake (Wakefield) Spot Pond Beaver Pond Sandy Pond Reservoir Stow:

Littleton: Lake Boon/Boon Pond (Hudson) White Pond (Hudson) Fort Pond Long Pond Sudbury: Lake Matawanakae/Forge Pond (Westford) Nagog Pond (Acton) Willis Pond Spectacle Pond Tewksbury: Marlborough: Long Pond Lake Williams Round Pond

Maynard: Townsend:

Puffers Pond Vinton Pond [added 2006] Nantucket County

Tyngsborough: Nantucket:

Massapoag Pond (Groton, Dunstable) Coskata Pond Gibbs Pond Wakefield: Hummock Pond Long Pond Crystal Lake (Stoneham) Miacomet Pond Sesachacha Pond Tom Nevers Pond Waltham

Sherman Pond/

Wayland:

Dudley Pond Heards Pond

Westford:

Burgess Pond Flushing Pond Forge Pond/Lake Matawanakae (Littleton) Grass Pond Heart Pond Keyes Pond Long Sought For Pond Nabnassett Lake

Weston:

Nonesuch Pond (Natick)

Wilmington:

Silver Lake

Winchester:

Mystic Pond Wedge Pond Winter Pond

Woburn:

Horn Pond Norfolk County

Bellingham:

Beaver Pond (Milford)

Braintree:

Great Pond (Randolph) Sunset Lake/Little Pond Cranberry Pond

Canton:

Ponkapoag Pond (Randolph) Reservoir Pond Bolivar Pond

Cohassett:

Lily Pond

Dedham:

Wigwam Pond

Foxborough:

Lake Mirimichi (Plainville)

Franklin:

Populatic Pond (Norfolk) Beaver Pond Uncas Pond

Milton:

Houghton Pond

Needham:

Bullards Pond [Removed from Needham 2006]

Norfolk:

Kingsbury Pond Populatic Pond (Franklin)

Plainville:

Lake Mirimichi (Foxborough)

Plymouth County

Randolph: Abington:

Great Pond (Braintree) Island Grove Pond (Canton) Bridgewater: Sharon: Nippenickett Pond Massapoag Lake Nunkets Pond Billings Pond Robins Pond [Removed from Bridgewater 2006]

Wellesley: Carver:

Lake Waban Bates Pond Coopers Pond Weymouth: Dunham Pond John's Pond Weymouth Great Pond Sampson's Pond Whitman's Pond Vaughn's Pond Wenham Pond Wrentham: Duxbury: Lake Mirimichi [Removed from Wrentham 2006] Lake Pearl Lake Archer East Bridgewater:

Robbins Pond

Halifax:

Monponsett Pond

Hanson:

Indian Head Pond Oldham Pond (Pembroke) [Added to Hanson 2006]

Hingham:

Accord Pond (Rockland, Norwell)

Kingston:

Indian Pond (Plympton) Silver Lake (Pembroke, Plympton) Smelt Pond

Lakeville:

Assawompsett Pond (Middleborough) Clear Pond Dunham Pond Silver Lake (Kingston, Pembroke) [Added to Elders Pond Plympton 2006] (Middleborough, Rochester) Rochester: Little Quitticas Pond (Rochester) Long Pond (Freetown) Great Quittacas Pond (Lakeville, Loon Pond Middleborough) (Middleborough) (Lakeville) Mary Pond Middleborough:

Assawompsett Pond (Lakeville) Rockland: Great Quittacas Pond (Lakeville, Rochester) Pocksha Pond (Lakeville) Accord Pond (Hingham, Norwell) Woods Pond Scituate:

Norwell: Musquashcut Pond

Accord Pond (Rockland, Hingham) Wareham:

Pembroke: Bartlett Pond Blackmoor Pond Furnace Pond Cedar Pond Great Sandy Pond Dick's Pond Little Sandy Bottom Pond Sandy/Pickeral Pond Oldham Pond (Hanson) Spectacle Pond Silver Lake (Kingston, Plympton) Stetson Pond

Plymouth:

Big Sandy Pond Big West Pond Boot Pond Darby Pond Five-Mile Pond Great Herring Pond (Bourne) Grassy West Pond Gunners Exchange Pond Little Long Pond Little South Pond Little West Pond Long Pond North Triangle Pond Ship/Savoy Pond (Wareham)

Plympton:

Indian Pond (Kingston) [Added to Plympton 2006] Suffolk County

Boston:

Jamaica Pond Worcester County Douglas:

Ashburnham: Manchaug Lake (Sutton) Wallum Pond Cheshire Pond Bad Luck Pond Lincoln Pond Lower Naukeage Pond Dudley: Upper Naukeage Pond Ward Pond Blood Pond (Charlton) Watatic Pond Gore Pond (Charlton) Winnekeag Pond Hayden Pond Peter Pond Athol: Gardner: Lake Rohunta (Orange) Crystal Lake Auburn: Kendall Pond Snake Pond Eddy Pond Grafton: Berlin: Flint's Pond (Shrewsbury, Worcester) Gates Pond Harvard: Blackstone: Bare Hill Pond Harris Pond Hell/Mirror Lake

Bolton Holden:

Little Pond Quinapoxet Pond (Princeton) West Pond Hubbardston: Boylston: Asnacomet/Comet Pond Pout Pond Moosehorn Pond Sewell Pond Lancaster:

Brookfield: Fort Pond Little Spectacle Pond Quaboag/Podunk Pond Spectacle Pond [Added in 2006] South Pond/Quacumquasit Pond (Sturbridge) Turner Pond White Pond (Leominster) Charlton: Leicester: Blood Pond (Dudley) Gore Pond (Dudley) Henshaw Pond

Clinton: Leominster:

Clamshell Pond [added 2017] Rocky Pond Coachlace Pond Whalom Pond (Lunenburg) Mossy Pond White Pond (Lancaster) Lunenburg: Demond Pond Long Pond Massapoag Pond Mushopauge Pond Whalom Pond (Leominster) [Added to Turkey Hill Pond (Paxton) Lunenburg 2006] Shrewsbury: Mendon: Flint's Pond (Grafton, Worcester) Nipmuck Pond Jordan Pond (Worcester) Milford: Spencer: Beaver Pond (Bellingham) Lake Maspenock/North Pond (Hopkinton, Upton)

Millbury: Sterling:

Dorothy Pond East Washaccum Pond Ramshorn Pond (Sutton) Fitch Pond Singletary Pond (Sutton) West Waushaccum Pond

Northborough: Sturbridge:

Little Chauncy Pond Alum Pond Soloman Pond Cedar Pond Lead Mine Pond Oakham: Long Pond South Pond/Quacumquasit Pond (Brookfield) Browning Pond Muddy Pond Sutton: Oxford: Manchaug Lake (Douglas) Carbuncle Pond Ramshorn Pond (Millbury) Singletary Pond (Millbury) Paxton: Upton: Asnebumskit Pond Turkey Hill Pond (Rutland) Lake Maspenock/North Pond (Hopkinton, Milford) Phillipston: Pratt Pond

Queen Lake Webster:

Princeton: Webster Lake

Quinapoxet Pond (Holden) West Brookfield: Wachusett Lake (Westminster) Wickaboag Pond Royalston: Westborough: Long Pond Cedar Swamp Pond Rutland: Honcomonock Pond Lake Chauncy Grassy Meadow/Wyam Reservoir Meeting House Pond

Westminster:

Meetinghouse Pond Muddy Pond Wachusett Lake (Princeton) Wyam Pond

Winchendon:

Lake Denison [Added 2006]

Worcester:

Flint's Pond (Grafton, Shrewsbury) Indian Lake/North Pond Lake Quinsigamond (Shrewsbury)