Watkins Boat Ramps

2 boat launches are mapped on Watkins in Waseca County, Minnesota.

2 of these launches include facility details from Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Watkins facts

Surface area134 acres
TypeReservoir (mapped as Watkins Lake)
Average depthabout 9 ft (modelled estimate)
Water volumeabout 1,321 acre-feet (modelled)
Shoreline lengthabout 2.4 miles
Surface elevation1,102 ft above sea level
DamWatkins Lake, completed 1938
Dam size7 ft high, gravity dam
Dam purposesRecreation
Dam ownerMNDNR (State)
Normal storage148 acre-feet
Impounded streamCrane Creek

Sources: USGS National Hydrography Dataset (public domain); HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016, CC BY 4.0); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams (NID ID MN00881). Matched to this page by name and location; modelled values are approximate. See all sources.

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