Every Lake
AL · depth model
Wilson Lake
Muscle Shoals' lake, behind the highest lift lock east of the Rockies.
The layers of this board — each depth is engraved on its step
- 20 ft · first step
- 40 ft
- 60 ft
- 80 ft
- 100 ft
- 119 ft · bottom
119 ftmaximum depth
62.1square miles of water
6depth layers cut
4,971roads engraved on the 12"
24towns named
3.2 lbthe 12" on the wall (≈ 20.2 lb at 30")
The lake
About Wilson Lake
Wilson Lake stretches along the Tennessee River between Florence and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, backed up behind Wilson Dam, which was completed in 1924 and began generating power the following year. The lake covers about 15,500 acres of water between the bluffs. Wilson Dam's lock has a 94-foot lift, the highest single-lift lock east of the Rocky Mountains, and the dam itself predates the Tennessee Valley Authority, which later took it over as the anchor of its whole river system.
On the board
- 24 shore towns named, with a star on each
- 4,971 roads engraved around the shore, 3 of them labeled
- 6 depth layers, each step engraved with its depth in feet
- Compass rose, title block with coordinates, max depth and area; keyhole hanger on the back
Why we cut this one
Wilson Lake is one of the lakes people ask us for by name — the kind of shoreline where the house has a name and the dock has a history. This board is cut from the same depth grid the configurator uses for all 104,419 lakes, so the shape is the real one.Turn it in your hands
Live 3D of the actual cut files — drag to orbit, pinch to zoom. Every road you see is engraved on the real thing.
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