MI · ranked by public data

Deepest Lakes in Berrien County, Michigan, Ranked

1 Berrien County lake are at least 50 state-mapped acres with an IFR-surveyed depth, out of 60 documented lakes in the county.

190 ft
922 acres
Berrien County, MI
Paw Paw Lake
limitedDepth map
42.21, -86.27922 acres | 90 ft max0 public access pointsSpecies pending
90 ft maximum depth · 922 acres

Methodology

How this list is built

Ranked by the deepest point recorded in Michigan DNR Institute for Fisheries Research (IFR) lake surveys — historical hand-drawn survey maps, largely mid-1900s, digitized by the DNR. Depths have not been re-confirmed by modern survey.
Only lakes with an IFR survey can rank; Michigan lakes without one are not listed rather than guessed at.
Lakes under 50 acres — or without a confidently matched Michigan DNR GIS lake polygon for acreage — are excluded from rankings.
Public access inventories are not yet tracked for Michigan, so access is never shown or ranked here.

FAQ

Berrien County lake records

What is the deepest lake in Berrien County?

Paw Paw Lake — Paw Paw Lake in Berrien County has the deepest recorded IFR survey point of any ranked Berrien County lake, at 90 feet — a historical DNR survey figure, not a modern re-survey.

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Source data: Michigan DNR Institute for Fisheries Research historical lake surveys (largely mid-1900s; depths not re-confirmed by modern survey) and Michigan DNR GIS lake polygons, as aggregated by LakeList.Lake outlines are shoreline shapes from LakeList and the USGS National Hydrography Dataset; they illustrate a lake's form and are not depth or navigation charts.