Deepest lakes & reservoirs in by maximum depth (ft)
The estimated greatest depth of the water in a lake can be measured at the lake’s normal elevation. If the water volume and surface area of a lake are known, an estimate of the lake’s average depth can be calculated:Water volume ÷ Surface Area = Average Depth
Example: 1,000,000 acre-feet ÷ 20,000 acres = 50 feet average depth.
You can find many of the the world’s deepest lakes on LakeLubbers. If you sort the list, you will find the (maximum depth of) the shallowest lakes in our database. Note: For some lakes, lake depth data is unknown, so this table may display fewer lakes than the total 2151 articles we have published for lakes.
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Below are lakes within Compared by maximum depth in feet. This list does not represent all lakes in , only the 2151 lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Max depth in feet |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Newnans Lake, FL (Florida, North Florida, US South Region, USA) |
12 ft | Also known as Newnan's Lake, Lake Newnan An alligator slips silently into the water as cormorants look on from their perches in the bald cypress trees that ring Newnans Lake. With the Spanish… |
| Orange Lake, FL (Florida, North Florida, US South Region, USA) |
12 ft | Both wading birds and airboats are at home amongst the mats of floating aquatic plants on beautiful Orange Lake in Alachua County, Florida. With its a… |
| Ashford Lake, CT (Connecticut, Mystic Country Region, CT, US New England Region, USA) |
12 ft | Also known as Lake Ashford There is a strip of dark land in the corridor between metropolitan Boston and Washington, D.C.; it’s “a place where the soft glow of city and town lig… |
| Fletcher Pond, MI (Michigan, Northeast Michigan, US Midwest Region, USA) |
12 ft | Also known as Fletcher Flooding Fletcher Pond, also known as the Fletcher Flooding, is an impoundment first created in 1935 when the Alpena Power Company dammed the Upper South Branc… |
| Washoe Lake, NV (Nevada, Renoe-Tahoe Territory, NV, US West Region, USA) |
12 ft | Washoe Lake, along with the smaller Little Washoe Lakes, is located in western Nevada between Carson City and Reno. Nestled in peaceful Washoe Valley,… |
| Ruby Lake, NV (Cowboy Country, NV, Nevada, US West Region, USA) |
12 ft | Also known as Ruby Marsh Perhaps the last thing one would expect to find in the deserts of northeastern Nevada is a marsh. But Ruby Lake is just that: a 17,125 acre marsh and… |
| Millsboro Pond, DE (Delaware, Southern Delaware, US Mid-Atlantic Region, USA) |
12 ft | Delaware does not have any natural lakes, but the coastal state does have wetlands, rivers and estuaries, a large percentage of which are in Sussex Co… |
| Lake Waccamaw, NC (Coast Region, NC, North Carolina, US South Region, USA) |
12 ft | Lake Waccamaw in southeastern North Carolina is estimated to have formed around 250,000 years ago, although the exact origin of its formation is uncer… |
| Lake Okeechobee, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
12 ft | With over 451,000 blue, watery acres, Lake Okeechobee is a lake with many titles. It is, by surface acreage, the largest lake in Florida. It also hold… |
| Lake Arbuckle (Florida, US South Region, USA, West Central Florida) |
11 ft | A rarity among West-Central Florida lakes, Lake Arbuckle is a natural lake without shoreline development. The lake is not dammed, with the only outflo… |
| Lakes of Acadia National Park (Down East & Acadia Region, ME, Maine, US New England Region, USA) |
11 ft | Also known as Eagle Lake, Seal Cove Lake, Long Pond., Somes Pond, Little Long Pond, Round Pond, Jordan Pond, Hogdon Pond, Lower Hadlock Pond, Bubble Pond, Witch Hole Pond, Echo Lake, Lake Wood, Turners Lake Pristine gems in a rugged landscape setting, the nearly 30 lakes in Acadia National Park never fail to sparkle. Located in Maine’s Downeast and Acadia… |
| Boulder Lake (Lake Superior Northwoods Region, WI, US Midwest Region, USA, Wisconsin) |
11 ft | Boulder Lake, in Wisconsin’s Lake Superior Northwoods Region, is everything nature lovers could want. Only an hour-and-a-half from either Green Bay or… |