by WisCartography

Potato Lake

About this Map

This carefully drawn, artful map of Potato Lake captures a long, gently curving Northwoods lake with a broad central basin, narrower northern and southern ends, and several small bays and projecting shoreline features. Detailed bathymetric contours reveal a relatively simple but distinctive underwater landscape, with broad areas of deeper water through the center of the lake and a deepest mapped point of approximately 20 feet. Bottom materials including gravel, muck, rubble, sand, and silt are identified around the lake, adding another layer of detail to this 224-acre Washburn County waterbody.

Potato Lake is surrounded primarily by forest, with scattered homes and cottages following portions of the western, northern, and eastern shoreline. A boat ramp is shown at the northern end of the lake, where a small creek and wetland corridor extend northward from the shoreline. Local roads wind through the surrounding woods, while State Highway 70 passes just south of the lake and provides an important geographic reference across the bottom of the map.

The surrounding landscape remains notably rural and lightly developed, with extensive forest, wetlands, small streams, and only scattered clearings beyond the immediate lakeshore. This combination of understated bathymetry, mapped lake-bottom materials, wooded shoreline, wetlands, and relatively sparse development gives the map a quiet character and nicely captures Potato Lake's setting within the forested lake country of Washburn County.