Every Lake
TX · depth model
Sam Rayburn Reservoir
The biggest lake wholly inside Texas, and a top-ranked bass lake.
The layers of this board — each depth is engraved on its step
- 14 ft · first step
- 28 ft
- 42 ft
- 56 ft
- 70 ft
- 84 ft · bottom
84 ftmaximum depth
155.6square miles of water
6depth layers cut
2,858roads engraved on the 12"
24towns named
3.1 lbthe 12" on the wall (≈ 19.4 lb at 30")
The lake
About Sam Rayburn Reservoir
Sam Rayburn Reservoir was completed in 1965 when the Corps of Engineers dammed the Angelina River in Deep East Texas, about 114,500 acres with a maximum depth of 80 feet — the largest lake entirely within the state. It was called McGee Bend Dam until 1963, when it was renamed for the recently deceased House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Jasper and Broaddus are its towns, 70 miles north of Beaumont, and Bassmaster magazine ranked it the best bass lake in the country in 2018.
On the board
- 24 shore towns named, with a star on each
- 2,858 roads engraved around the shore, 0 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
Sam Rayburn Reservoir 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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