How deep is Lime Lake?

Lime Lake is more than 70 feet deep. The deepest contour in the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey is the 70 foot line, and the lake continues deeper inside it.

Where is the deepest part of Lime Lake?

The deepest charted water on Lime Lake lies inside the 70 ft contour, toward the middle of the lake. That contour encloses 6.3 acres, 23% of the mapped water, so it is a broad slice of the bottom rather than a pinpoint target, the depth chart above gives the contour to line up on.

How much of Lime Lake is shallower than 50 feet?

About half. The 50 ft contour encloses 11 acres of the roughly 27 acres inside the outer 10 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 50 feet. The sharpest drop is between 15 and 20 feet, where the mapped water sheds 3 acres.

How accurate is this Lime 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

Lime Lake depth map

Lime Lake in Kent County, Michigan reaches a depth of more than 70 feet at its deepest surveyed contour. Lime Lake is charted here across 8 closed depth contours, from the 10 ft line down to 70 ft, enclosing about 27 acres of water. Half of that water lies inside the 50 ft line, and only 6.3 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

Lime Lake depth chart: 8 depth contours from 10 to 70 ft

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

Lime Lake depth chart data: water enclosed by each contour
Depth contour	Water inside it	Share of mapped water
10 ft	27 acres	100%
15 ft	25 acres	91%
20 ft	22 acres	81%
30 ft	18 acres	67%
40 ft	15 acres	56%
50 ft	11 acres	42%
60 ft	8.4 acres	31%
70 ft	6.3 acres	23%

Acreages are computed from the closed Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours contour rings, with islands subtracted. Shares are of the 27 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 Lime Lake: steep walls and a big basin

About 27 acres of Lime Lake sit inside the survey's 10 ft contour, and half of that water is already gone by the 50 ft line: the bottom holds its depth well out from the bank rather than tapering off a long shallow margin. The steepest break on the chart runs from 15 down to 20 ft: 3 acres of bottom fall away across 5 ft there, which makes that band the first contour to work. 6.3 acres, 23% of the mapped water, lie inside the deepest 70 ft contour, toward the middle of the lake. At 70 ft this is two-story water: the basin can stay cold below the summer thermocline while warm-water fish stay up on the 10-to-50 ft ground, and the fish that move between the two do it along the 15–20 ft break at first and last light.

Ice fishing on Lime Lake

Deep water like Lime Lake freezes later and less evenly than the shallow lakes around it, and the winter bite sets up on the first real break, not out over the 70 ft hole. That edge is the 15–20 ft band on the chart above, where 3 acres of bottom tilt away, and panfish and walleye work up and down it through the day. By late ice the fish push back onto the 10-to-50 ft flat. Check ice thickness locally before you walk out.

Lime Lake depth map FAQs

How deep is Lime Lake?: Lime Lake is more than 70 feet deep. The deepest contour in the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey is the 70 foot line, and the lake continues deeper inside it.
Where is the deepest part of Lime Lake?: The deepest charted water on Lime Lake lies inside the 70 ft contour, toward the middle of the lake. That contour encloses 6.3 acres, 23% of the mapped water, so it is a broad slice of the bottom rather than a pinpoint target, the depth chart above gives the contour to line up on.
How much of Lime Lake is shallower than 50 feet?: About half. The 50 ft contour encloses 11 acres of the roughly 27 acres inside the outer 10 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 50 feet. The sharpest drop is between 15 and 20 feet, where the mapped water sheds 3 acres.
How accurate is this Lime 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 Lime Lake

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Mapped fishing venues near Lime Lake

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

Mead Lake · 8 mi away
Baptist Lake · 9 mi away
Half Moon Lake · 9 mi away

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