Elmore City Lake
Garvin County, Oklahoma69 acresView mapDirections
Oklahoma DEQ publishes the water-quality measurements for Elmore City Lake. Here is what has been measured.
- 36 ft max depth
- Limited data
Elmore City Lake in Garvin County, Oklahoma has water-quality measurements published by Oklahoma DEQ, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 2.5 ft visibility. Surface area: 69 acres.
Elmore City Lake is a 69-acre lake in Garvin County, Oklahoma with an estimated average depth of about 36 feet.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, ODEQ, last sampled 2019-08-05. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Elmore City Lake is safe to swim in today is a call for the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Elmore City Lake
These are the measurements Oklahoma DEQ publishes for Elmore City Lake, shown as reported. The condition class beside each reading is the EPA National Lakes Assessment class for this lake’s ecoregion.
Very murky, less than 2.5 ft of visibility. TSI 64.
| Measure | Reading | Where it sits |
|---|---|---|
| Water clarity (Secchi depth) | 2.5ft | Measured, not scored How deep a black-and-white disk stays visible from the surface. Higher is clearer. |
| Total phosphorus | No reading The nutrient that most limits algae growth in freshwater. More phosphorus, more algae potential. | |
| Chlorophyll-a (algae) | No reading The green pigment in algae — a direct measure of how much algae is in the water. | |
| Trophic state (TSI)Carlson's 0–100 index of how much algae a lake can support, from clarity, phosphorus and chlorophyll-a. | 64 | Eutrophic OligotrophicMesotrophicEutrophicHypereutrophic |
High nutrients, frequent algae, reduced clarity
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Lake Details
Max depth
~36 ft est.
Surface area
69 acres
Depth marked “est.” is a modeled maximum from GLOBathy (Khazaei et al. 2022, CC0), not a measured survey. Oklahoma has not published bathymetry for Elmore City Lake.
Lake Size & Watershed
Watershed (drainage) area
3 sq mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Shoreline
1.4 mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Elevation
1,010 ft
Size, shoreline, and watershed area from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS). Mean depth here is modelled, not surveyed — HydroLAKES v1.0 estimates lake depth from surrounding terrain rather than from soundings. Treat it as an approximation, and prefer a state bathymetric survey where one exists.
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Reservoir Info (USACE NID)
Elmore City Lake is a man-made reservoir impounded by the SCS-Wildhorse Creek Site-107 (completed 1962), built primarily for water supply on the Tr-Rock Creek; earth-type dam, 50 ft tall and 2,250 ft long.
- Surface area
- 69 ac
- Normal storage
- 564 ac-ft
- Max storage
- 2,036 ac-ft
- Drainage area
- 2.65 sq mi
- Hazard class
- High
- Owner
- GARVIN CO CONS DIST
Source: USACE National Inventory of Dams, NID ID OK00282 · Operator website
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Frequently asked questions about Elmore City Lake
Where is Elmore City Lake?
- Elmore City Lake is a lake in Garvin County, Oklahoma. Its water-quality measurements are published by Oklahoma DEQ and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Elmore City Lake?
- Elmore City Lake in Garvin County, Oklahoma has water-quality measurements published by Oklahoma DEQ, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 2.5 ft visibility. Surface area: 69 acres.
Is Elmore City Lake safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
How deep is Elmore City Lake?
- No published bathymetric survey covers Elmore City Lake, so its depth has not been measured. The HydroLAKES global model estimates an average depth of about 36 feet, but that is a modelled estimate derived from surrounding terrain rather than a measurement on the water, so treat it as approximate. The lake covers 69 acres.
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Where this data comes from
12 measurements from 3 monitoring stations, 2018–2019. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-02.
Collected and reported by
- OWRB Lakes Monitoring
OKWRB-LAKES_WQX12 samples · 2018–2019
Analytical methods
- OWRB Lakes Field Data Collection
Monitoring station identifiers (3)
EPA condition classes from the National Lakes Assessment (EPA 841-R-24-006, Table 6-3), applied by ecoregion. See where the data comes from and data sources.
Other records on this page
Lake size & watershed from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS)