• Lake - an inland body of water occupying a depression in the earth's surface, generally of appreciable size
• Pond - a natural body of standing water, occupying a small surface depression, usually smaller than a lake.
• River - a natural freshwater surface stream of considerable volume and a permanent or seasonal flow.
• Stream - any body of moving water that moves under gravity to progressively lower levels, in a relatively narrow but clearly defined channel on the surface of the ground.
• Brook - a small stream or rivulet, commonly swiftly flowing in rugged terrain, of lesser length and volume than a creek. A term used in England and New England for any tributary to a small river or to a larger stream.

• BKP Binghams Kennebec Purchase
• BPP Binghams Penobscot Purchase
• ED East Division
• EKR East of the Kennebec River
• MD Middle Division
• NBKP North of Binghams Kennebec Purchase
• NBPP North of Binghams Penobscot Purchase
• ND North Division
• NWP North of the Waldo Patent
• PLT Plantation
• SD South Division
• TS Titcomb Survey
• TWP Township
• WELS West of the Easterly Line of the State
• WBKP West of Binghams Kennebec Purchase
• WKR West of the Kennebec River

Source: Length and Breadth of Maine, by S.B. Attwood, 1977, University of Orono Press, Orono, Maine.

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