Bankhead Lake is a reservoir along the Black Warrior River that begins in Walker County in the state of Alabama.

Bankhead Lock and Dam and its reservoir is a project of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, while Alabama Power Company owns and operates the adjoining hydroelectric generating plant.

[2] Alabama Power's hydropower facility was installed on the right bank in 1963.

As of March 1969, Bankhead was the last of those original 17 still in service, but was deemed by the Corps of Engineers structurally unsafe and at risk of collapse.

Some of the original dam structure still exists as part of the complex but is not accessible.