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USGS Topographical Map showing Horn Pond.
Location of Horn Pond in Massachusetts, USA.
Location of Horn Pond in Massachusetts, USA.
Horn Pond
Location in Massachusetts
Location of Horn Pond in Massachusetts, USA.
Location of Horn Pond in Massachusetts, USA.
Horn Pond
Location in the United States
Location Woburn, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°28′11″N 71°09′23.1″W / 42.46972°N 71.156417°W / 42.46972; -71.156417
Type Natural great pond
Primary inflows Fowle Brook & Cummings Brook
Primary outflows Horn Pond Brook to Aberjona River
Basin countries United States
Surface area 102 acres (0.2 sq mi)
Average depth 10 ft (3.0 m)
Average transparency: 6 ft (1.8 m)
Max. depth 40 ft (12.2 m)
Surface elevation 139 ft (42.4 m)
Settlements Woburn, Massachusetts

Horn Pond is a 102-acre (41 ha) water body along the Aberjona River in Woburn, Massachusetts in the United States. The pond is fed by several brooks and flows out via Horn Pond Brook to the Aberjona River and the Mystic Lakes, eventually reaching the Mystic River and the Atlantic Ocean. It was also traversed by the Middlesex Canal from 1802 to 1860.

Yellow perch were the most common species recorded at Horn Pond in a 1982 survey, with additional species, including: largemouth bass, pumpkinseed, bluegill, killifish, chain pickerel, golden shiner, carp, white sucker, brook trout, yellow bullhead, brown bullhead and black crappie. Trout (primarily rainbows, but also browns and brookies) have been stocked in the past, with more fish and trout in the fall.

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