Diamond Lake, Washington

Diamond Lake is an unincorporated community in Pend Oreille County, Washington, United States located southwest of Newport, Washington. The Diamond Lake community is built around Diamond Lake.^[1]

Diamond Lake, Washington
Unincorporated community
Diamond Lake, Washington
Coordinates: 48°07′19″N 117°11′57″W
Country	United States
State	Washington
County	Pend Oreille
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code	99156
Area code	509

Lake

Diamond Lake
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Coordinates	48°07′45″N 117°11′39″W
Basin countries	United States
Surface area	754.4 acres (305.3 ha)
Average depth	26 ft (7.9 m)
Max. depth	58 ft (18 m)
Water volume	24.787 acre⋅ft × 106 acre⋅ft (30,574 m3 × 130,749 m3)
Shore length1	7 mi (11 km)
Surface elevation	2,343 ft (714 m)
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Diamond Lake is a 754.4-acre (3.053 km²) natural lake located in the area north of U.S. Route 2.^[2]

The average depth of the lake is 26 ft (7.9 m) deep with a maximum depth of 58 ft (18 m). Diamond Lake offers year-round fishing and has a population of largemouth bass, yellow perch, bullheads, rainbow and brown trout. A cooperative net pen project releases 12,500 rainbow and brown trout. Approximately 200 rainbow trout surplus broodstock are farmed in Diamond Lake annually.^[3][4]