How deep is Eagle Lake?

Eagle Lake is more than 60 feet deep. The deepest contour in the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey is the 60 foot line, and the lake continues deeper inside it.

Where is the deepest part of Eagle Lake?

The deepest charted water on Eagle Lake lies inside the 60 ft contour, toward the middle of the lake. That contour encloses 1 acres, 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 Eagle Lake is shallower than 30 feet?

About half. The 30 ft contour encloses 63 acres of the roughly 151 acres inside the outer 10 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 30 feet. The sharpest drop is between 20 and 30 feet, where the mapped water sheds 53 acres.

How accurate is this Eagle Lake depth map?

The contours come from the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours 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. Acreages are computed from the published contour geometry, not from a separate area survey, so read them as close approximations.

Michigan lake depth maps

Eagle Lake depth map

Eagle Lake in Van Buren County, Michigan reaches a depth of more than 60 feet at its deepest surveyed contour. Eagle Lake is charted here across 6 closed depth contours, from the 10 ft line down to 60 ft, enclosing about 151 acres of water. Half of that water lies inside the 30 ft line, and only 1 acres lie inside the deepest one. Every contour is on the interactive map below, free and without an account.

Data: Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours (public record). Contours closed, checked and area-computed by Jordan Carter, founder of GilledIt · page updated August 19, 2026

Eagle Lake depth chart: 6 depth contours from 10 to 60 ft

Data: Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours (public record), retrieved August 2026 · depths change over time · not for navigation

Eagle Lake depth chart data: water enclosed by each contour
Depth contour	Water inside it	Share of mapped water
10 ft	151 acres	100%
20 ft	116 acres	77%
30 ft	63 acres	42%
40 ft	39 acres	26%
50 ft	13 acres	8.9%
60 ft	1 acres	under 1%

Acreages are computed from the closed Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours contour rings, with islands subtracted. Shares are of the 151 acres inside the outermost charted contour (the 10 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 Eagle Lake: a stepped drop into deep water

The survey encloses about 151 acres of Eagle Lake inside its 10 ft contour, and half of that water lies inside the 30 ft line, so the drop to the deep basin comes in stages, each contour giving up another slice of water, rather than in one abrupt wall. Between 20 and 30 ft the mapped water sheds 53 acres in 10 ft of depth, the sharpest change on the chart, start on that band, because it is where the bottom stops being flat. The deepest 60 ft contour holds 1 acres, under 1% of the mapped water, toward the middle of the lake. 60 ft of water makes this a two-story fishery: warm-water fish hold the 10-to-30 ft ground while the basin can stay cold below the summer thermocline, and the traffic between the two runs along the 20–30 ft break at first and last light.

Ice fishing on Eagle Lake

Eagle Lake freezes later and less evenly than the shallow waters around it, and the winter bite sets up on the first real break rather than out over the 60 ft hole. The 20–30 ft band on the chart above is that edge: 53 acres of bottom tilt away there, and panfish and walleye slide up and down it through the day. Late ice pushes fish back onto the 10-to-30 ft flat. Check ice thickness locally before you walk out.

Eagle Lake depth map FAQs

How deep is Eagle Lake?: Eagle Lake is more than 60 feet deep. The deepest contour in the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey is the 60 foot line, and the lake continues deeper inside it.
Where is the deepest part of Eagle Lake?: The deepest charted water on Eagle Lake lies inside the 60 ft contour, toward the middle of the lake. That contour encloses 1 acres, 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 Eagle Lake is shallower than 30 feet?: About half. The 30 ft contour encloses 63 acres of the roughly 151 acres inside the outer 10 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 30 feet. The sharpest drop is between 20 and 30 feet, where the mapped water sheds 53 acres.
How accurate is this Eagle Lake depth map?: The contours come from the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours 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. Acreages are computed from the published contour geometry, not from a separate area survey, so read them as close approximations.

Depth maps for lakes near Eagle Lake

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Mapped fishing venues near Eagle Lake

Eagle Lake in the venue directory covers access and fishing details for this water.

Christie Lake · 2 mi away
Shafer Lake · 7 mi away
Cedar Lake · 9 mi away

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