Healdton Lake
Carter County, Oklahoma370 acresView mapDirections
Oklahoma DEQ publishes the water-quality measurements for Healdton Lake. Here is what has been measured.
- 35 ft max depth
- Limited data
Healdton Lake in Carter County, Oklahoma has water-quality measurements published by Oklahoma DEQ, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 1 ft visibility. Surface area: 370 acres.
Healdton Lake is a 370-acre lake in Carter County, Oklahoma with an estimated average depth of about 35 feet. Overall water quality is improving over recent sampling years.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, ODEQ, last sampled 2024-10-08. 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 Healdton 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 Healdton Lake
These are the measurements Oklahoma DEQ publishes for Healdton 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 1 ft of visibility. TSI 77.
| Measure | Reading | Where it sits |
|---|---|---|
| Water clarity (Secchi depth) | 1ft | 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. | 77 | Hypereutrophic OligotrophicMesotrophicEutrophicHypereutrophic |
Very high nutrients, dense algae, poor clarity
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Lake Details
Max depth
~35 ft est.
Surface area
370 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 Healdton Lake.
Lake Size & Watershed
Watershed (drainage) area
10 sq mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Shoreline
4.3 mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Elevation
902 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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Fishing Healdton Lake
Water Quality Trend: Improving
Based on 4 years of monitoring (2016–2024).
Water clarity
Improving4 years
Reservoir Info (USACE NID)
Healdton Lake is a man-made reservoir impounded by the SCS-Upper Bayou Site-10m (completed 1979), built primarily for flood risk reduction on the Oil Branch Creek; earth-type dam, 38 ft tall and 1,580 ft long.
- Surface area
- 370 ac
- Normal storage
- 3,000 ac-ft
- Max storage
- 6,994 ac-ft
- Drainage area
- 10.47 sq mi
- Hazard class
- Significant
- Owner
- ARBUCKLE CONSERVATION DISTRICT
Source: USACE National Inventory of Dams, NID ID OK20805 · Operator website
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Frequently asked questions about Healdton Lake
Where is Healdton Lake?
- Healdton Lake is a lake in Carter County, Oklahoma. Its water-quality measurements are published by Oklahoma DEQ and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Healdton Lake?
- Healdton Lake in Carter County, Oklahoma has water-quality measurements published by Oklahoma DEQ, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 1 ft visibility. Surface area: 370 acres.
Is Healdton Lake safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
How deep is Healdton Lake?
- No published bathymetric survey covers Healdton Lake, so its depth has not been measured. The HydroLAKES global model estimates an average depth of about 35 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 370 acres.
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Where this data comes from
40 measurements from 3 monitoring stations, 2016–2024. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-02.
Collected and reported by
- OWRB Lakes Monitoring
OKWRB-LAKES_WQX40 samples · 2016–2024
Analytical methods
- OWRB Lakes Field Data Collection
- Determination of Turbidity
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)