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Minnesota Lakes With Green Sunfish

661 counted Minnesota lakes list Green Sunfish in Minnesota DNR records. The largest is Minnetonka at 14,206 acres. The deepest of them is Iron Chief Complex at 262.1 ft.

#	Lake	County	Surface Area	Max Depth
1	Minnetonka	Hennepin	14,206 acres	113 ft
2	Big Stone	Big Stone	11,984 acres	16 ft
3	Gull	Cass	10,010 acres	80 ft
4	Burntside	St. Louis	7,314 acres	126 ft
5	North Long	Crow Wing	6,190 acres	97 ft
6	West Battle	Otter Tail	5,615 acres	108 ft
7	Green	Kandiyohi	5,569 acres	110 ft
8	Ida	Douglas	4,445 acres	106 ft
9	Reno	Pope	3,809 acres	23 ft
10	Pelican	Grant	3,761 acres	21 ft
11	Clearwater	Wright	3,187 acres	73 ft
12	Shell	Becker	3,147 acres	16 ft
13	Waconia	Carver	3,080 acres	37 ft
14	Detroit	Becker	3,067 acres	89 ft
15	Koronis (main lake)	Stearns	2,968 acres	132 ft
16	Big Kandiyohi	Kandiyohi	2,730 acres	18 ft
17	Alexander	Morrison	2,709 acres	64 ft
18	Albert Lea	Freeborn	2,669 acres	5.5 ft
19	Edward	Crow Wing	2,628 acres	75 ft
20	Carlos	Douglas	2,605 acres	163 ft
21	Washington	Meeker	2,438 acres	17 ft
22	Okamanpeedan	Martin	2,268 acres	6.5 ft
23	Wabana	Itasca	2,221 acres	115 ft
24	Elysian (Main Lake)	Waseca	2,215 acres	13 ft
25	Greenwood	Cook	2,043 acres	112 ft
26	Freeborn	Freeborn	2,034 acres	6.7 ft
27	White Earth	Becker	1,989 acres	120 ft
28	Lizzie (north portion)	Otter Tail	1,913 acres	66 ft
29	Geneva	Freeborn	1,884 acres	3.5 ft
30	Cedar	McLeod	1,860 acres	8 ft
31	Melissa	Becker	1,850 acres	37 ft
32	Big Marine	Washington	1,799 acres	60 ft
33	Hanska	Brown	1,795 acres	16 ft
34	North Turtle	Otter Tail	1,773 acres	19 ft
35	Cotton	Becker	1,763 acres	28 ft
36	Trout	Itasca	1,743 acres	157 ft
37	Sturgeon	Pine	1,706 acres	40 ft
38	Many Point	Becker	1,701 acres	92 ft
39	Round	Crow Wing	1,650 acres	51 ft
40	Marion	Otter Tail	1,624 acres	62 ft
41	Diamond	Kandiyohi	1,610 acres	27 ft
42	Andrusia	Beltrami	1,596 acres	60 ft
43	Long	Kandiyohi	1,573 acres	16 ft
44	Hendricks	Lincoln	1,522 acres	9 ft
45	Roosevelt	Cass	1,511 acres	129 ft
46	Big Trout	Crow Wing	1,366 acres	128 ft
47	Lura	Blue Earth	1,359 acres	9 ft
48	Stalker	Otter Tail	1,357 acres	95 ft
49	Clearwater	Cook	1,344 acres	130 ft
50	High Island	Sibley	1,340 acres	6.5 ft
51	Big Stone NWR East Pool	Lac Qui Parle	1,286 acres	-
52	Chippewa	Douglas	1,186 acres	95 ft
53	Floyd	Becker	1,178 acres	34 ft
54	South Twin	Mahnomen	1,127 acres	29 ft
55	Sullivan	Morrison	1,103 acres	57 ft
56	Vermilion River	St. Louis	1,071 acres	-
57	Itasca	Clearwater	1,065 acres	40 ft
58	Francis	Meeker	1,053 acres	17 ft
59	Bald Eagle	Ramsey	1,049 acres	36 ft
60	Sugar	Wright	1,014 acres	69 ft
61	Oscar	Douglas	997 acres	25 ft
62	Elbow	Becker	995 acres	76 ft
63	Upper Cormorant	Becker	974 acres	29 ft
64	Nest	Kandiyohi	969 acres	40 ft
65	West Two Rivers Reservoir	St. Louis	967 acres	27 ft
66	North Twin	Mahnomen	966 acres	16 ft
67	Ada	Cass	963 acres	60 ft
68	Lower Prior	Scott	956 acres	60 ft
69	Chisago	Chisago	944 acres	34 ft
70	Medicine	Hennepin	924 acres	49 ft
71	Andrew	Douglas	923 acres	83 ft
72	Clearwater	Crow Wing	905 acres	54 ft
73	German	Le Sueur	889 acres	51 ft
74	Upper Mission	Crow Wing	882 acres	36 ft
75	Winchell	Cook	876 acres	160 ft
76	Little Birch	Todd	839 acres	89 ft
77	Circle	Rice	838 acres	14 ft
78	George	Hubbard	826 acres	29 ft
79	Pulaski	Wright	813 acres	87 ft
80	West Lost	Otter Tail	795 acres	16 ft
81	Cedar	Wright	790 acres	108 ft
82	Long	Meeker	783 acres	11 ft
83	Long	Otter Tail	767 acres	73 ft
84	Schilling	Sibley	763 acres	7 ft
85	Andrew	Kandiyohi	759 acres	26 ft
86	Eleventh Crow Wing	Hubbard	751 acres	80 ft
87	North Center Lake	Chisago	749 acres	46 ft
88	Swan	Otter Tail	749 acres	44 ft
89	Howard	Wright	745 acres	39 ft
90	Stuart	Otter Tail	740 acres	49 ft
91	Goose	Chisago	732 acres	55 ft
92	Wall	Otter Tail	727 acres	34 ft
93	Ossawinnamakee	Crow Wing	711 acres	63 ft
94	Whitefish	Crow Wing	709 acres	62 ft
95	Oliver	Swift	686 acres	18 ft
96	Big Swan	Meeker	684 acres	32 ft
97	Minnewashta	Carver	680 acres	70 ft
98	Pigs Eye	Ramsey	674 acres	4 ft
99	Preston	Renville	655 acres	11 ft
100	Silver	Sibley	652 acres	8 ft

Showing the 100 largest of 661 counted lakes with Green Sunfish.

Source: Minnesota DNR lake data. Verified October 30, 2026.