Lake maps
Alabama lake maps
Custom Gifts Online is in Hanceville, AL. These pages are for the Alabama lakes and reservoirs people print as a house gift, a fishing gift, or a wedding gift: a 12×16 framed map, a 12-inch round wood sign, or a 12×16 canvas. Pick a lake below, then open the customizer with that name filled in. You still choose the matching result before anything is printed. The shoreline comes from OpenStreetMap.
The three lake map gifts
Custom Lake Map Framed Print 12x16
$79.99, with US shipping included.
Your lake in layered teal on a maple wood-tone print, with the roads and highway shields around it, nearby towns, marinas, boat ramps, dams, parks, and named creeks. Title and counties up top, lake area and a compass rose below. 12×16 in a black frame.
Lake Map Round Wood Sign 12"
$74.99, with US shipping included.
A 12″ round natural wood sign printed with your lake, the main roads and towns around it, marinas and dams, and the lake name, counties, acreage, and coordinates. The wood grain shows through.
Custom Lake Map Canvas 12x16
$59.99, with US shipping included.
Your lake in layered teal on a wood-tone background with the roads, towns, marinas, boat ramps, dams, and creeks around it, on a 12×16 stretched canvas, ready to hang.
Tennessee River
TVA’s main-river lakes in Alabama: Guntersville, Wheeler, Wilson, and Pickwick. Wilson Dam is a National Historic Landmark. Pickwick also runs into Mississippi and Tennessee.
Guntersville Lake
TVA reservoir on the Tennessee River in Jackson and Marshall counties, behind Guntersville Dam.
Wheeler Lake
TVA’s first main-river reservoir, from Wheeler Dam in Lauderdale County upstream through Decatur.
Wilson Lake
The narrow Tennessee River pool behind Wilson Dam, a National Historic Landmark between Florence and Muscle Shoals.
Pickwick Lake
TVA reservoir downstream of Wilson Dam, in Colbert and Lauderdale counties and across the Mississippi and Tennessee lines.
Bear Creek
Four non-generating TVA reservoirs in northwest Alabama. Upper Bear Creek, Bear Creek, Little Bear Creek, and Cedar Creek are different dams, finished between 1969 and 1979.
Upper Bear Creek Reservoir
The upstream TVA Bear Creek lake, with its dam in Marion County near Haleyville. Releases feed the Bear Creek floatway.
Bear Creek Reservoir
The oldest of the four TVA Bear Creek lakes, finished in 1969 between Red Bay and Hackleburg.
Little Bear Creek Reservoir
A 1976 TVA reservoir in Franklin County, west of Russellville, between the Cedar Creek and Bear Creek pools.
Cedar Creek Reservoir
The newest TVA Bear Creek lake, completed in 1979 in Franklin County between Red Bay and Russellville.
Coosa River
Alabama Power’s Coosa chain, from Weiss Lake in Cherokee County down to Jordan Lake near Wetumpka. Lay Dam, in 1914, was the company’s first hydro plant. Logan Martin is not Lake Martin.
Weiss Lake
Alabama Power storage reservoir on the Coosa in Cherokee County, generating since June 5, 1961.
Neely Henry Lake
Alabama Power storage lake on the Coosa, finished in 1966, with Gadsden as its flood-control point.
Logan Martin Lake
Alabama Power storage lake on the Coosa east of Birmingham, impounded in 1964 near Vincent.
Lay Lake
Alabama Power’s first hydroelectric reservoir, on the Coosa, operating since April 12, 1914.
Mitchell Lake
Alabama Power run-of-river lake at Duncan’s Riffle near Verbena, generating since August 1923.
Jordan Lake
The downstream Coosa reservoir, finished in 1928 near Wetumpka, just above the Alabama River.
Tallapoosa River
Harris (Lake Wedowee), Lake Martin, Yates, and Thurlow. Martin is the long 1926 storage lake at Cherokee Bluffs. Yates and Thurlow are the small run-of-river pools at Tallassee.
Harris Lake
R.L. Harris Lake, called Lake Wedowee, a 1983 Alabama Power storage reservoir on the Tallapoosa near Wedowee.
Lake Martin
Alabama Power’s 1926 Tallapoosa reservoir at Cherokee Bluffs, in Coosa, Elmore, and Tallapoosa counties.
Yates Lake
A 2,000-acre Alabama Power run-of-river lake at Tallassee, between Lake Martin and Thurlow Lake.
Thurlow Lake
Alabama Power’s smallest Tallapoosa lake in its shoreline guide: 574 acres at Tallassee, finished in 1930.
Black Warrior River
Lewis Smith Lake is Alabama Power’s Sipsey Fork reservoir. Bankhead and Holt are Corps navigation pools. Lake Tuscaloosa and Inland Lake are city drinking-water reservoirs in the same basin.
Lewis Smith Lake
Alabama Power’s 1961 reservoir on the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior, in Cullman, Walker, and Winston counties.
Bankhead Lake
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Black Warrior west of Birmingham, with an Alabama Power powerhouse.
Holt Lake
The Corps pool on the Black Warrior immediately north of Tuscaloosa, between Holt Dam and Bankhead Dam.
Lake Tuscaloosa
The City of Tuscaloosa’s drinking-water reservoir on the North River, completed in 1970.
Inland Lake
A Birmingham Water Works reservoir on the Blackburn Fork of the Little Warrior River in Blount County.
Alabama River
Three Corps navigation lakes below Wetumpka: Woodruff (Jones Bluff), Dannelly (Millers Ferry), and Claiborne. Auburn University’s Water Resources Center describes them as the pools that carry a nine-foot channel toward Mobile.
R.E. “Bob” Woodruff Lake
The upstream Corps lake on the Alabama River, also called Jones Bluff, behind Robert F. Henry Lock and Dam.
William “Bill” Dannelly Reservoir
The Millers Ferry pool on the Alabama River, named William “Bill” Dannelly Reservoir, in Dallas and Wilcox counties.
Claiborne Lake
The downstream Corps pool on the Alabama River, from Claiborne Lock upstream to Millers Ferry.
Tombigbee River
Aliceville and Gainesville are Tennessee-Tombigbee pools. Demopolis Lake starts where the Black Warrior meets the Tombigbee. Coffeeville is the southernmost lake in that Corps system, beside the Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge.
Aliceville Lake
A Tennessee-Tombigbee reservoir at Tom Bevill Lock, finished in 1979 near Pickensville and reaching into Mississippi.
Gainesville Lake
A 1978 Tombigbee reservoir whose lock, Howell Heflin Lock, stands on a canal apart from the dam.
Demopolis Lake
The Corps lake at the junction of the Black Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, the largest pool in that navigation system.
Coffeeville Lake
The southernmost Black Warrior–Tombigbee navigation lake, with the Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge on its shore.
Conecuh River
Gantt Lake and Point A Lake are PowerSouth’s run-of-river plants in Covington County. Both original dams were destroyed in the 1929 flood and rebuilt. Point A is the smaller pool.
Chattahoochee River
Lake Eufaula is the local name for Walter F. George Lake, the Corps reservoir on the Alabama–Georgia line in Barbour and Henry counties. The pool also reaches Phenix City and Columbus, Georgia.
Other Alabama lakes
Lake Purdy and Big Creek Lake (J.B. Converse Reservoir) are city drinking-water supplies. Lake Jackson at Florala is natural, not dammed. Lake Tholocco is the recreation lake on the Army post in Dale County.
Lake Purdy
Birmingham Water Works reservoir on the Little Cahaba River in northern Shelby County, first built in 1906–1910.
Big Creek Lake
J.B. Converse Reservoir, also called Big Creek Lake, the drinking-water supply for Mobile in Mobile County.
Lake Jackson
A natural lake on the Alabama–Florida line in Florala, in Covington County, not a dam reservoir.
Lake Tholocco
A Civilian Conservation Corps recreation lake on Claybank Creek in Dale County, on the Army aviation post.
Questions
- Which Alabama lakes have a page?
- Each lake linked on this page is a reservoir or natural lake in Alabama with a published dam, operator, or state inventory record. Border lakes say which other state they enter. Private ponds and small county fishing lakes are not listed.
- How is the lake map made?
- Search the lake on the product page and pick it from the results. The preview draws the shoreline, roads, and labels from OpenStreetMap. When the print shows acreage, that figure is approximate and comes from the map data, not from the acreages quoted on these pages.
- How much are the lake map gifts?
- Custom Lake Map Framed Print 12x16 is $79.99 with US shipping included. Lake Map Round Wood Sign 12" is $74.99 with US shipping included. Custom Lake Map Canvas 12x16 is $59.99 with US shipping included. Each lake page links to those products with the lake name filled in. You still pick the lake from the search results before you pay.