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Silver Lake

Washtenaw County, Michigan · MI DNR bathymetric survey
65ft Max
depth
15 acres 8 contours
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The lake

Survey readout

Measured from the Michigan DNR inland-lake contour survey.

Maximum depth
65 ft
Surface area
15 acres
Shoreline
0.61 mi · round
Surveyed contours
8 isobaths · 0–65 ft
Deepest soundings
65 ft
Aquatic vegetation
10% of surface · NAIP NDVI
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Provenance

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

Coordinates
42.18152, -83.96934
MI DNR lake ID
L22322
Vertical exaggeration
1.47×
Basemap
USDA NAIP · public domain
Model size
0.7 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

DNR SFR 2014-169
652Fish sampled
19Species

Gamefish

Largemouth Bass19 caught · to 17″
Northern Pike14 caught · to 26″
Bowfin3 caught · to 24″

Panfish

Bluegill205 caught · to 9″
Redear Sunfish197 caught · to 10″
Hybrid Sunfish30 caught · to 9″
Rock Bass23 caught · to 8″
Black Crappie10 caught · to 10″
Green Sunfish5 caught · to 3″
Pumpkinseed2 caught · to 8″
Warmouth2 caught · to 3″
Yellow Perch2 caught · to 3″

Bullhead & catfish

Brown Bullhead31 caught · to 12″
Black Bullhead5 caught · to 15″

Forage & nongame

Bluntnose Minnow38 caught · to 3″
Blackchin Shiner34 caught · to 2″
Blacknose Shiner27 caught · to 2″
Least Darter3 caught
Lake Chubsucker2 caught · to 6″
Stocking: Silver Lake was stocked with bluegills, sunfish, largemouth bass, and yellow perch on an intermittent basis from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s.
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).