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Prides Creek Lake depth map

Prides Creek Lake in Pike County, Indiana reaches a depth of 26 feet. Prides Creek Lake is charted here across 13 closed depth contours, from the 2 ft line down to 26 ft, enclosing about 81 acres of water. Half of that water lies inside the 12 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

Prides Creek Lake depth chart: 13 depth contours from 2 to 26 ft

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

Prides Creek Lake depth chart data: water enclosed by each contour
Depth contourWater inside itShare of mapped water
2 ft81 acres100%
4 ft66 acres82%
6 ft58 acres72%
8 ft50 acres62%
10 ft43 acres54%
12 ft36 acres45%
14 ft29 acres36%
16 ft23 acres29%
18 ft18 acres22%
20 ft12 acres15%
22 ft6.6 acres8.2%
24 ft2 acres2.5%
26 ftunder 1 acreunder 1%

Acreages are computed from the closed Indiana DNR Lake Bathymetry contour rings, with islands subtracted. Shares are of the 81 acres inside the outermost charted contour (the 2 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 Prides Creek Lake: an evenly graded bottom

About 81 acres of Prides Creek Lake sit inside the survey's 2 ft contour, and half of that water is already gone by the 12 ft line: the bottom loses depth gradually and evenly, with no broad shelf and no single abrupt drop. The steepest break on the chart runs from 2 down to 4 ft: 15 acres of bottom fall away across 2 ft there, which makes that band the first contour to work. Inside the 26 ft contour there is under an acre of water, toward the western side of the lake: a single pocket rather than a basin, and worth a drift over in high summer. At 26 ft top to bottom, weed growth shapes this water more than depth does, but the 0.1-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.

Prides Creek Lake depth map FAQs

How deep is Prides Creek Lake?
Prides Creek Lake reaches a maximum depth of 26 feet in the Indiana DNR Lake Bathymetry survey. Most of it is far shallower: the survey charts 13 closed depth contours over about 81 acres, and half of that water sits inside the 12 ft line.
Where is the deepest part of Prides Creek Lake?
The deepest charted water on Prides Creek Lake lies inside the 26 ft contour, toward the western side of the lake. That contour encloses under an acre, under 1% 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 Prides Creek Lake is shallower than 12 feet?
About half. The 12 ft contour encloses 36 acres of the roughly 81 acres inside the outer 2 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 12 feet. The sharpest drop is between 2 and 4 feet, where the mapped water sheds 15 acres.
How accurate is this Prides 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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