Lake · Michigan

Lake Erie

174 m571 ft

Area: 25,555 km²
Max depth: 64 m

Lake Erie is a lake at 174 m above sea level in Michigan, United States, 25,555 km² in area and 400.1 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 174 m
Length: 400.1 km
Shoreline: 2,662.3 km

Open the 3D view

3D map

Lake Erie 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 20 × 20 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Erie topographic map

5 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 25 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Erie elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

Lake Erie downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGLake Erie satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-07.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Erie in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 2,662.3 km

Weather

Lake Erie weather

Lake Erie forecast for about 174 m: unavailable right now. Try again in a few minutes.

Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain.

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.

Mostly gentle: 99% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

98.9%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.8%

Steep, 30–45°

0.2%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.2% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 104 m low point 173 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 60.5%Trees 25.9%Grassland 8.9%Built-up 3.3%Cropland 1.1%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 1,552 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Canada Goose2,477
Autumn Meadowhawk1,587
Fragile Forktail1,150
Blue Dasher944
Variable Dancer879
Powdered Dancer827

Where it sits

Where Lake Erie sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Crawford Lake286 m186 km NNE

Sources

Data sources

Terrain: U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-07)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia