Sooner Lake Sooner Lake Sooner Lake is a reservoir in Pawnee and Noble counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It was built in 1972 to serve as a reservoir of cooling water for a coal-fired power generation plant owned by Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (OG&E). The plant is at the northwest end of the lake. The normal elevation is . Maximum depth is and average depth is . The lake covers and has a water capacity of . The shoreline is long. The lake is not far from the Arkansas River. It was originally filled by pumping water from the
Oklahoma State Highway 15 SH-15 splits off to the northeast, heading through Gage and Fargo, before ending in Woodward. The eastern SH-15 picks up a US-64/412 south of Garber, and begins concurrent with State Highway 74 heading northbound. It splits from SH-74 to head through Billings and has an interchange with Interstate 35 at milemarker 203. It then has a five-mile (8.0 km) concurrency with U.S. Highway 77. After leaving US-77, it passes through Red Rock, and has a concurrency with US-177, and splits off just north of the intersection with the Cimarron Turnpike. It bridges Sooner Lake and runs for 15 more miles