List of former lakes of Minnesota

• Lake Agassiz
• Glacial Lake Aitkin
• Bear Lake, in Lowville Township, Minnesota was actually a wooded area with four lakes: Bear Lake proper, Crooked Lake, Hawk or Rush Lake, and Tibbetts or Great Oasis Lake. These lakes and surrounding wetlands, a total of 6,000 acres (24 km²), were drained in 1915.
• Centeral Lake, in Murray County, Minnesota east of Lime Creek
• Glacial Lake Duluth
• Glacial Lake Grantsburg
• Glacial Lake Minnesota
• Rat Lake, in Westbrook Township, Minnesota, west of Bean Lake and Double Lake
• Glacial Lake Upham