{{Short description|Lake in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox lake | name = Potter Pond | image = | caption = | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = Washington County, Rhode Island, United States | coords = {{Coord|41.3873242|-71.5311693|region:US-RI_type:waterbody_source:gnis|display=inline,title}} | type = saline | inflow = | outflow = |pushpin_map=Rhode Island | catchment = | basin_countries = United States | length = | width = | area = | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = | islands = | sections = | cities = | frozen = }} '''Potter Pond''' (formerly '''Fish Pond''') is a saltwater pond in the town of South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. Its tidal inlet connects to Point Judith Pond.<ref>{{cite web|title=Salt Ponds of Rhode Island |publisher=Rhode Island Sea Grant |accessdate=2009-05-25 |url=http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/bookstore/saltpond.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517014016/http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/bookstore/saltpond.pdf |archivedate=May 17, 2008 }}</ref> It is one of nine coastal lagoons, referred to as "salt ponds" by locals, in southern Rhode Island.<ref>{{cite web|author=Donald Wyatt|title=Rhode Island's last execution|year=1995|publisher=FAQs.org|accessdate=2009-05-25|url=http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/General-interest/The-salt-ponds-of-Rhode-Island-They-go-back-a-long-way.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=S.W. Nixon and B. A. Buckley|title=Nitrogen Inputs to Rhode Island Coastal Salt – Too Much of a Good Thing|year=2007|publisher=Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management|accessdate=2009-05-25|url=http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/benviron/water/permits/isds/pdfs/spnload.pdf}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Rhode Island}} *List of lakes in Rhode Island *Geography of Rhode Island
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{gnis|1217748|Potter Pond}} {{RI salt ponds}} {{Waterbodies of Rhode Island}}
Category:Lagoons of Washington County, Rhode Island Category:Saline lakes of the United States Category:South Kingstown, Rhode Island
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