This GIS layer contains bathymetric elevation bands (derived from bathymetric contours) of selected freshwater lakes in Washington State. The majority of the bathymetric contours were digitized from maps contained in a series of seven documents: Reconnaissance Data on Lakes in Washington, Water-Supply Bulletin 43, Volume 1 through 7 by the United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Washington State Department of Ecology. The exceptions are 1) Lake Chelan which was digitized in 2016 from the publication Morphometry of Lake Chelan (published in January 1987); 2) Lake Sammamish whose digital data was acquired from King County in 2013 and is derived from data collected during the publication of Development of a Three-Dimensional Hydrographic Model of Lake Sammamish (published in November 2008); and 3) Lake Crescent, whose digital bathymetric soundings were taken by a private party during 2013/2014 and provided to the Department of Ecology and were converted to contour lines in 2016.