Green Lake (Wisconsin)

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Green Lake

Location	Green Lake County, Wisconsin
Coordinates	43.82N, -88.96W
Lake type	Natural, pre-glacial valley
Primary inflows	Silver Creek
Primary outflows	Puchyan Creek
Catchment area	100 square miles (260 km²)
Basin countries	United States
Max. length	7.5 miles (12.1 km)
Max. width	3.0 miles (4.8 km)
Surface area	7,325 acres (30 km²)
Average depth	101 feet (30 m)
Max. depth	237 feet (72 m) (Deepest in Wisconsin and entire Midwest)
Water volume	4.3 billion gallons (Largest Volume in Wisconsin)
Residence time (of lake water)	21 Years
Shore length¹	29.3 mi (47 km)
Surface elevation	796 ft (243 m)
Islands	1, manmade at Green Lake Conference Center
Settlements	Green Lake
¹ Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Green Lake, also known as Big Green Lake is a lake in Green Lake County, Wisconsin.

The lake has a maximum depth of 237 feet (72 m), making it the deepest natural inland lake in Wisconsin.^[1] The lake covers 7,346 acres (30 km²), has 29.3 miles (47.2 km) of shoreline and has an average depth of 100 feet (30 m). ^[2]

Green Lake is the oldest resort community west of Niagara Falls. Many large, wooden hotels and one short lived casino populated the north shore during the late 1800s, but most have burnt down.

Big Green Lake is known for its fishing. Fish found in Big Green Lake include northern pike, largemouth bass, muskellunge, crappie, walleye, smallmouth bass, channel catfish, white bass, perch, rock bass and cisco and lake trout. The Wisconsin inland lake record lake trout was caught on Big Green Lake by Joseph Gotz on June 1, 1957 and weighed 35 lb 4 oz (16.0 kg) The Wisconsin record cisco was caught on Big Green on June 12, 1969 by Joe Miller and weighed 4 lb 10.5 oz (2.11 kg)