Millstone Lake

Wright County, Minnesota - DNR stocking history, depth and survey data

Minnesota · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) · DOW 86015200

Millstone Lake has no DNR stocking rows in LakeFinder; this page carries its DNR depth, access and survey data.

• Millstone Lake shows no stocking records in Minnesota DNR LakeFinder as of September 2, 2026.
• Maximum depth 8 ft, mean depth 4 ft; surface area 200 acres, 200 littoral acres, 2.6 miles of shoreline, per the DNR lake survey.
• Fish species DNR lists here: black bullhead, black crappie, bluegill, green sunfish.
• 1 public access on the DNR list.
• Most recent DNR fish survey: May 7, 2019 (targeted survey).
• Wright County, nearest town Silver Creek (Wright); DNR lake number (DOW) 86015200.

Depth map

Bathymetric contours from the Minnesota DNR lake survey mapped 4/25/2006 (gps); depths in feet. Simplified for the web; not for navigation.

Public accesses

DNR fish survey, 2019

Catch per net (CPUE) is the DNR survey's count per gill net or trap net set; higher means more of that species were sampled, not a fishing forecast. Top species per gear shown; where we have no verified common name for a DNR code, the code itself is shown.

Millstone Lake is located four miles north of Maple Lake in Wright County. It has a surface area of 202 acres and a maximum depth of eight to ten feet depending on water levels. The watershed is small (705 acres) mostly agricultural, and water quality is poor. Millstone Lake has not been considered to be a "fish lake" and no fisheries management has taken place with the exception of its use as a walleye fingerling rearing pond by the MN DNR in 2001 and 2014 (both years corresponding to severe winterkill events the previous winter). There is a state owned access on west side of the lake near the Lakeview Cemetery off of Country Road 8. This brief survey was intended to determine if a possible winterkill took place in the winter of 2018-19 based on reports of dead fish discovered at the time of ice-off in the early spring of 2019. On May 7, 2019 four 1/4" single framed trap nets were set in Millstone Lake. Individual fish were not counted, but approximate numbers were as follows: 5-10 adult Black Bullheads per trap net ranging in length from 4 to 10 inches, 5-25 yearling Bluegills/ trap net approximately 2 inches in length, 2 adult BLG/ trap net ranging in length from 4 to 7 inches, 2-5 adult (4") Green Sunfish/ trap net, and a single 3 inch long Black Crappie. A visual inspection of the shoreline of the lake yielded hundreds of decaying Common Carp as well as a few badly decayed Walleye and Largemouth Bass. The results of this survey confirmed that although dissolved oxygen levels were low enough to cause some of the more winterkill susceptible species to die, conditions were not severe enough to cause mortality in the majority of the panfish and bullheads present and that conditions were not suitable for the use of Millstone as a Walleye rearing pond in the spring of 2019.

Minnesota DNR survey narrative, May 7, 2019.

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