Minnesota lake depth maps

Minnesota DNR publishes depth contours surveyed for thousands of the state’s lakes, from small kettle lakes to Mille Lacs and Lake Minnetonka. TopoStack interpolates between the surveyed contours to build a lake floor you can cut as layers.

Each lake name below opens the studio framed to that lake’s survey area and generates its terrain. You can also search every surveyed lake or browse other regions.

Browse by county

• Aitkin County 45 lakes
• Anoka County 31 lakes
• Becker County 85 lakes
• Beltrami County 38 lakes
• Blue Earth County 10 lakes
• Carlton County 44 lakes
• Carver County 32 lakes
• Cass County 123 lakes
• Chisago County 23 lakes
• Clay County 10 lakes
• Clearwater County 20 lakes
• Cook County 37 lakes
• Cottonwood County 11 lakes
• Crow Wing County 111 lakes
• Dakota County 17 lakes
• Douglas County 53 lakes
• Freeborn County 9 lakes
• Hennepin County 75 lakes
• Hubbard County 92 lakes
• Isanti County 16 lakes
• Itasca County 158 lakes
• Jackson County 9 lakes
• Kanabec County 9 lakes
• Kandiyohi County 29 lakes
• Lake County 51 lakes
• Le Sueur County 20 lakes
• Lyon County 10 lakes
• Mahnomen County 11 lakes
• Martin County 15 lakes
• Meeker County 29 lakes
• Morrison County 22 lakes
• Murray County 8 lakes
• Otter Tail County 71 lakes
• Pine County 17 lakes
• Polk County 11 lakes
• Pope County 18 lakes
• Ramsey County 32 lakes
• Rice County 14 lakes
• Scott County 19 lakes
• Sherburne County 24 lakes
• St. Louis County 147 lakes
• Stearns County 86 lakes
• Todd County 45 lakes
• Washington County 36 lakes
• Wright County 120 lakes

Largest survey areas

• Big Stone
• Mille Lacs
• Pepin

Lakes in other counties

Benjamin County

• Benjamin

Benton County

• Little Rock
• Mayhew

Big Stone County

• Artichoke
• Big Stone
• East Toqua
• Long Tom

Brown County

• Clear 44.259° N, 94.520° W
• Sleepy Eye
• Wellner-Hageman Reservoir

Faribault County

• Bass

Fosdick County

• Fosdick

Goodhue County

• Pepin
• U.S. Lock & Dam #3 also U.S. Lock & Dam #3 Pool

Grant County

• Barrett
• Elk
• Lower Elk
• Pelican
• Pomme de Terre
• Thompson

Houston County

• South Fork

Istasca County

• Deer

Itsaca County

• Hay

Kadiyohi County

• Foot

Kandivohi County

• Lillian

Kittson County

• Bronson

Koochiching County

• Clear 47.965° N, 94.100° W
• Dark

Lac Qui Parle County

• Lac Qui Parle (N.W. Bay) also Lac qui Parle (NW Bay)
• Lac Qui Parle (S.E. Bay) also Lac qui Parle (SE Bay)

Leseur County

• Volney

Lesuer County

• Fish

Lincoln County

• Benton
• Dead Coon
• Hendricks
• Perch
• Shaokotan

Marshall County

• Thief
• Unnamed (Florian Pk Res.)

Mcleod County

• Cedar
• Hook
• Marion
• Otter
• Silver 44.896° N, 94.204° W
• Stahl's
• Winsted

Mille Lacs County

• Black Bass
• Mille Lacs
• Shakopee

Mower County

• East Side
• LeRoy Sand Pit
• Mill Pond

N County

• Cockburn

Nicollet County

• Swan
• Unnamed (Hallett)

Nobles County

• Indian
• Kinbrae
• Okabena
• West Graham

Olmsted County

• Zumbro

Pennington County

• Red Lake River Reservoir

Pipestone County

• Indian Pond

Pleasant County

• Pleasant

Redwood County

• Laura
• Redwood

Renville County

• Allie
• Preston

Roseau County

• Hayes

Sheburne County

• Big

Sibley County

• Clear 44.456° N, 94.516° W
• Silver 44.619° N, 93.975° W

Steele County

• Beaver
• Kohlmeier
• Rice

Stevens County

• Hattie
• Long 45.589° N, 95.790° W
• Page
• Perkins

String County

• String

Swift County

• Camp
• Hassel
• Monson
• Oliver (east portion)
• Oliver (west portion)

Traverse County

• Traverse

Wadena County

• Blueberry
• Lower Twin
• Morgan
• Spirit
• Stocking
• Unnamed 46.800° N, 94.958° W
• Unnamed 46.787° N, 95.060° W

Waseca County

• Clear 44.086° N, 93.484° W
• Elysian
• Loon
• Reeds
• St. Olaf

Watonwan County

• Kansas
• Long 43.903° N, 94.661° W
• St. James

Winona County

• Winona (North Bay) also Winona (Northwest Bay)
• Winona (South Bay) also Winona (Southeast Bay)

Yellow Medicine County

• Curtis
• Del Clark
• John Reservoir
• Tyson
• Wood

Make a lake map from this data

1. Open a lake from the list. The studio frames its survey area, turns on Water depth and generates the terrain. Widen the frame and regenerate if you want more shoreline.
2. Check the warnings above the preview. The studio warns when survey coverage is partial or depths are estimated; how lake depths work explains why.
3. Enter your sheet thickness in Terrain layers; the studio works out the layer count. If a deep lake needs more sheets than you want, Fit depth compresses it while keeping the shoreline. The custom lake map guide walks through the whole build.
4. Turn on paint templates to spray only the water on each layer, and split the map if it is bigger than your laser bed.
5. Export the SVG layers. The download’s ATTRIBUTION.txt credits the survey used.

Data source

• Minnesota DNR lake bathymetry: survey contours. Minnesota DNR General Geographic Data License; survey contours interpolated by TopoStack. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/sitetools/data_software_license.html

Survey dates and water levels vary between lakes, and a listing can cover only part of a lake. See sources and attribution for credits.