MI · ranked by public data
9 Houghton County lakes are at least 50 state-mapped acres with an IFR-surveyed depth, out of 106 documented lakes in the county.
Houghton County, MI
90 ft maximum depth · 60 acres
Houghton County, MI
51 ft maximum depth · 83 acres
Houghton County, MI
40 ft maximum depth · 258 acres
Houghton County, MI
29 ft maximum depth · 863 acres
Houghton County, MI
21 ft maximum depth · 101 acres
Houghton County, MI
20 ft maximum depth · 75 acres
Houghton County, MI
11 ft maximum depth · 173 acres
Houghton County, MI
5 ft maximum depth · 656 acres
Houghton County, MI
4 ft maximum depth · 99 acres
Methodology
FAQ
Emily Lake — Emily Lake in Houghton County has the deepest recorded IFR survey point of any ranked Houghton County lake, at 90 feet — a historical DNR survey figure, not a modern re-survey.
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.