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United States lakes and reservoirs lake depth maps

381 lakes in United States lakes and reservoirs have surveyed grids and survey contours in TopoStack. Pick a lake, open it in the studio, and export SVG layers for a laser-cut lake map.

Multibeam surveys from USGS cover Crater Lake, Lake Tahoe and Mono Lake, and reservoir surveys from the Texas Water Development Board and the Bureau of Reclamation cover selected reservoirs. NOAA’s National Bathymetric Source adds measured depths for hundreds of lakes, lagoons and coastal ponds, from Lake Pontchartrain and the St. Johns River lakes to Lake Washington and Lake Pend Oreille; only the surveyed parts are used. NOAA nautical charts add Lake Okeechobee, Lake Champlain, the New York canal lakes and Michigan’s inland and harbour lakes from charted contours and soundings. Minnesota has its own page.

Larger lakes link to a page with their survey facts and sizes; the studio link beside them, and every other lake name, 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 name

Largest survey areas

Records published without a lake name

Baldwin County · Alabama, USA

California / Nevada, USA

Colorado, USA

Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region · Connecticut, USA

Capitol Planning Region · Connecticut, USA

Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region · Connecticut, USA

Sussex County · Delaware, USA

District of Columbia · District of Columbia, USA

Bonner County · Idaho, USA

Cook County · Illinois, USA

Hancock County · Maine, USA

Dukes County · Massachusetts, USA

Barnstable County · Massachusetts, USA

Suffolk County · Massachusetts, USA

Jackson County · Mississippi, USA

Atlantic County · New Jersey, USA

Monmouth County · New Jersey, USA

Ocean County · New Jersey, USA

Beaufort County · North Carolina, USA

Brunswick County · North Carolina, USA

Craven County · North Carolina, USA

Hyde County · North Carolina, USA

Erie County · Ohio, USA

Oregon, USA

Columbia County · Oregon, USA

Gilliam County · Oregon, USA

Peñuelas Municipio · Puerto Rico, USA

Washington County · Rhode Island, USA

Charleston County · South Carolina, USA

St. Croix Island · U.S. Virgin Islands, USA

St. Thomas Island · U.S. Virgin Islands, USA

Winnebago County · Wisconsin, USA

Kewaunee County · Wisconsin, USA

Manitowoc County · Wisconsin, USA

Make a lake map from this data

  1. Open a lake in the studio 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

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

Continue your project

Explore the Lake Tahoe example

Open a prepared lake project and learn why its framing and depth settings were chosen.

Follow the Crater Lake project

See a software preview and a worked setup with surveyed lake-floor data.

Take your SVG into LightBurn

Check dimensions, processing layers and kerf before running the job.

Create a topographic map