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Kent Lake

Oakland County, Michigan · MI DNR bathymetric survey
38ft Max
depth
993 acres 15 contours

Depth scale

The lake

Survey readout

Measured from the Michigan DNR inland-lake contour survey (depths read from the survey's isobath field; this lake's summary-depth column is blank in the source).

Maximum depth
38 ft
Surface area
993 acres
Shoreline
16.23 mi · irregular
Surveyed contours
15 isobaths · 0–38 ft
Deepest soundings
38 ft, 22 ft, 12 ft, 10 ft, 9 ft, 8 ft, 7 ft, 6 ft, 5 ft, 4 ft, 3 ft, 2 ft, 0 ft
Aquatic vegetation
16% of surface · NAIP NDVI
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Chart data

Provenance

All layers registered to one bounding box; positions in WGS 84.

Coordinates
42.53379, -83.64723
MI DNR lake ID
L21525
Vertical exaggeration
2.39×
Basemap
USDA NAIP · public domain
Model size
2.5 MB
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Computed for this lake’s coordinates.

How this map was made

Real DNR depth soundings drape over USGS 3DEP elevation, with a USDA NAIP aerial basemap and OpenStreetMap shoreline. Colour shows surveyed depth; dark lines are the survey's own isobaths.

Sources: MI DNR inland lake contours, USGS 3DEP, USDA NAIP (public domain), OpenStreetMap (ODbL), MI DNR Boat Launches.

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Fishery

surveyed 2006
2,463Fish sampled
17Species

Gamefish

Northern Pike310 caught · to 35″
Largemouth Bass230 caught · to 20″
Walleye165 caught · to 27″
Smallmouth Bass78 caught · to 18″
Rainbow Trout1 caught · to 22″
Brown Trout1 caught · to 14″

Panfish

Bluegill1,246 caught · to 9″
Black Crappie158 caught · to 12″
Pumpkinseed130 caught · to 8″
Yellow Perch27 caught · to 10″
Green Sunfish18 caught · to 4″
Rock Bass5 caught · to 6″
Warmouth5 caught · to 7″
Longear Sunfish1 caught · to 5″

Bullhead & catfish

Brown Bullhead54 caught · to 14″
Black Bullhead27 caught · to 14″
Yellow Bullhead7 caught · to 12″
Stocking: This necessitated the stocking of northern pike fingerlings from the 1980s through 1996 to supplement poor natural reproduction (Table 1).
Length is the largest fish netted in the survey, not an angler record. Source: Michigan DNR Status of the Fishery Resource report (counts summed across survey years).