Barrens Lake (Florence County)
Waterbody ID (WBIC): 602400 — permanent page /lakes/602400/.
Barrens Lake is in Florence County; records show 9 acres and 2 AIS occurrence records.
- Size
- 9 acres
- Max depth
- 23 ft
- Satellite clarity estimate 12.49 ft (2017)
Plan your visit
- Lake directory: public landing — No
- Lake directory: public beach — No
- Lake directory: public park — Yes
Each statement is bounded to its named source; absence of a record is never evidence of no access. The DNR access database may lag reality; posted signs at the landing are authoritative.
Verify at the DNR public boat access program page.
Fishing
No fish species/abundance table is published for this lake. Missing records mean unpublished, never zero fish.
No fisheries survey population estimate is published for this lake in the covered report families.
Fishing limits — 2026-2027 season: 19 normalized rows across 19 species entries. Normalized from the DNR ruleset retrieved 2026-08-04. Source text remains authoritative.
2026-2027 retained fishing rules: 19 published rows for 19 species; effective through 2027-03-07. Check current DNR rules.
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Water and setting
- Satellite clarity estimate: 12.49 ft (2017) — a remote-sensing estimate, kept separate from field measurements
No official DNR depth map is published for this lake.
Not published in the lake directory: lake type, official mean depth.
- AIS record: Eurasian watermilfoil — Verified (vouchered), latest documented 2014-04-03
- AIS record: Hybrid Eurasian / northern watermilfoil — Verified (vouchered), latest documented 2012-07-16
Occurrence records come from a non-exhaustive DNR inventory; a record documents presence at observation time and a missing record is never evidence of absence.
- Public-land proximity (GIS proxy, not access evidence): mapped public land within 1,000 ft; nearest: Spread Eagle Barrens State Natural Area (Wisconsin DNR); ≈100% of shoreline buffer
- Shoreline development (landcover proxy, 2025 source): ≈5.8% developed land within 300 m, ≈0.9% impervious
- Road proximity (TIGER proxy, 2025 source): nearest local road or city street ≈205 m; ≈0.4 km of road per km² within 1 km
- Priority Navigable Waterway — basis: lake under 50 acres
Designations are legally defined DNR records shown as their sources state them; no composite rating is implied.
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Data & sources
Published data families
- Fishing regulations (normalized snapshot)
- Directory access facts (landing, beach, park)
- Satellite water clarity estimate
- Aquatic invasive species occurrences
Original records: Wisconsin DNR lake page.
Missing values are unpublished, never zero; each fact above is bounded to its named source and date. Full sourcing detail: Data & methods.