Largest lakes & reservoirs in Alabama by water volume
The estimated volume of water that a lake contains is measured at the lake’s normal elevation. By this measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is Siberia’s Lake Baikal.Water Volume can be measured in acre-feet, in cubic miles, or in cubic kilometers. One acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre (43,560 square feet) to a depth of one foot. One cubic mile equals 3,379,200 acre-feet. One cubic kilometer equals 810,713 acre-feet. 1 acre-foot is equal to 325,851 US gallons. Siberia’s Lake Baikal contains about 6,276,367,740,000,000 gallons of freshwater – nearly 1 million gallons for every living person on earth.
The other – and more widely used – measure of a lake’s size is the lake’s surface acreage. By that measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is North America’s Lake Superior.
Note: In the United States, an acre foot is a unit of volume used to refer to large-scale bodies of water. It is defined by the volume of water needed to cover 1 acre of surface area to a depth of 1 foot.
You can find many of the the world’s largest lakes (by water volume) on LakeLubbers. Note: For some lakes, the water volume data is unknown or does not apply, so you may see fewer lakes than the total 32 articles we have published for Alabama lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > South > Alabama > Compared by water volume. This list does not represent all lakes in Alabama, only the 32 Alabama lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Water vol. in ac-ft |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Lay Lake (Alabama, Metropolitan, South, USA) |
262,774 ac-ft | Lay Lake is an impressive 12,000-acre reservoir stretching for 48 miles through the counties of Talladega, Shelby, Coosa, and Chilton in east-central… |
| Lake Jordan (Alabama, Metropolitan, South, USA) |
236,200 ac-ft | (Also known as Jordan Lake, Jordan Reservoir) Fun is the name of the game at central Alabama’s Lake Jordan. Offering 6,800 acres of water and 188 miles of shoreline, Lake Jordan has become home to… |
| Warrior Lake (Alabama, Metropolitan, South, USA) |
197,340 ac-ft | (Also known as Warrior Reservoir) Warrior Lake is part of the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Lake system located in the diverse Metropolitan Tourism Region of Alabama. Six miles southeast of… |
| Mitchell Lake (Alabama, Metropolitan, South, USA) |
172,000 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Mitchell) Centrally-located Mitchell Lake (also known as Lake Mitchell) is 45 miles from Montgomery and 55 miles from Birmingham in the Metropolitan region of A… |
| Lake Tuscaloosa (Alabama, Metropolitan, South, USA) |
123,000 ac-ft | Located five miles north of the cities of Tuscaloosa and Northport in western Alabama (Metropolitan Region), Lake Tuscaloosa is a 5,885-acre reservoir… |
| Neely Henry Lake (Alabama, Metropolitan, South, USA) |
120,850 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Neely Henry) Neely Henry Lake, located about 60 miles northeast of Birmingham in north central Alabama, is an 11,200-acre reservoir popular for boating, fishing, a… |
| Holt Lake (Alabama, Metropolitan, South, USA) |
117,990 ac-ft | (Also known as Holt Reservoir) Holt Lake is a 3,300-acre reservoir located about five miles northeast of the City of Tuscaloosa in west-central Alabama. Holt Lake is one of six lake… |
| Cedar Creek Reservoir (Alabama, Mountains, South, USA) |
93,940 ac-ft | The four reservoirs of the Bear Creek watershed are a recreational paradise for water lovers, and Cedar Creek Reservoir is the largest of the four and… |
| Aliceville Lake (Alabama, Metropolitan, Mississippi, Pines Region, South, USA) |
60,400 ac-ft | (Also known as Pickensville Lake) Aliceville Lake, known to fishing locals as Pickensville Lake, is one of 10 lakes on the 234-mile man-made Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The Tenn-Tom,… |
| Big Creek Lake AL (Alabama, Gulf Coast, South, USA) |
52,000 ac-ft | (Also known as Big Creek Reservoir, J.B. Converse Reservoir) Big Creek Lake, located in southwestern Alabama in Mobile County, is a storage reservoir that provides drinking water to thousands of people in the ne… |
| Little Bear Creek Reservoir (Alabama, Mountains, South, USA) |
37,800 ac-ft | (Also known as Little Bear Reservoir) Little Bear Creek Reservoir, located 13 miles southwest of Russellville in Franklin County in the Mountains Region of northwestern Alabama, is a 1,560… |
| Upper Bear Creek Reservoir (Alabama, Mountains, South, USA) |
37,400 ac-ft | (Also known as Upper Bear Reservoir) Tucked away in the Mountains Region of northern Alabama, Upper Bear Creek Reservoir awaits visitors with trophy sized bass fishing, boating, swimming,… |
