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Crooked Creek Lake depth map

Crooked Creek Lake in Brown County, Indiana reaches a depth of 22 feet. Crooked Creek Lake is charted here across 10 closed depth contours, from the 4 ft line down to 22 ft, enclosing about 8.2 acres of water. Half of that water lies inside the 16 ft line, and only under an acre lie inside the deepest one. Every contour is on the interactive map below, free and without an account.

Data: Indiana DNR Lake Bathymetry (credit: Indiana DNR). Contours closed, checked and area-computed by Jordan Carter, founder of GilledIt · page updated

Crooked Creek Lake depth chart: 10 depth contours from 4 to 22 ft

Data: Indiana DNR Lake Bathymetry (credit: Indiana DNR), retrieved August 2026 · depths change over time · not for navigation

Crooked Creek Lake depth chart data: water enclosed by each contour
Depth contourWater inside itShare of mapped water
4 ft8.2 acres100%
6 ft7.8 acres95%
8 ft6.9 acres85%
10 ft6.3 acres77%
12 ft5.6 acres68%
14 ft4.8 acres59%
16 ft4 acres49%
18 ft2.7 acres33%
20 ft1.5 acres19%
22 ftunder 1 acre4.2%

Acreages are computed from the closed Indiana DNR Lake Bathymetry contour rings, with islands subtracted. Shares are of the 8.2 acres inside the outermost charted contour (the 4 ft line), which is the outer edge of the mapped water, several state files carry no 0 ft shoreline line, so this is not the same as a share of the lake's published surface area.

Fishing Crooked Creek Lake: steep sides for its size

Inside its outermost 4 ft contour the survey charts about 8.2 acres of Crooked Creek Lake, with the 16 ft line enclosing half of it, so depth comes quickly here, with no long shallow margin before the bottom drops away. The sharpest change on the chart is between 16 and 18 ft, where the mapped water loses 1.3 acres in 2 ft of depth, that band is the contour to work first, because it is where the bottom stops being flat. Inside the 22 ft contour there is under an acre of water, toward the southwestern corner of the lake: a single pocket rather than a basin, and worth a drift over in high summer. At 22 ft top to bottom, weed growth shapes this water more than depth does, but the 0.3-acre deep spot still concentrates fish in the heat of summer, and the one-contour depressions on the chart are the ones most anglers row straight over.

Crooked Creek Lake depth map FAQs

How deep is Crooked Creek Lake?
Crooked Creek Lake reaches a maximum depth of 22 feet in the Indiana DNR Lake Bathymetry survey. Most of it is far shallower: the survey charts 10 closed depth contours over about 8.2 acres, and half of that water sits inside the 16 ft line.
Where is the deepest part of Crooked Creek Lake?
The deepest charted water on Crooked Creek Lake lies inside the 22 ft contour, toward the southwestern corner of the lake. That contour encloses under an acre, 4.2% of the mapped water, so it is a small target on a small water, the depth chart above gives the contour to line up on.
How much of Crooked Creek Lake is shallower than 16 feet?
About half. The 16 ft contour encloses 4 acres of the roughly 8.2 acres inside the outer 4 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 16 feet. The sharpest drop is between 16 and 18 feet, where the mapped water sheds 1.3 acres.
How accurate is this Crooked Creek Lake depth map?
The contours come from the Indiana DNR Lake Bathymetry survey, retrieved August 2026 and last rebuilt on August 19, 2026. Depths change over time with water levels and sediment, so treat this map as a planning guide for fishing, and never use it for navigation. Per Indiana DNR, the data are graphical representations for reference only, not a survey instrument. Acreages are computed from the published contour geometry, not from a separate area survey, so read them as close approximations.

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