Sutton Lake is a 1,520-acre (6 km2) reservoir on the Elk River in Braxton and Webster counties, West Virginia.

The lake was named by Congressional action, Public Law 90-46, July 4, 1967.

Sutton Dam was built primarily for flood control on the Elk, Kanawha and Ohio Rivers.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operates and maintains the dam and project recreation facilities.

Some reports of a 2013 Wake Forest University study of selenium contamination in Sutton Lake in North Carolina (allegedly due to coal ash from the Sutton power plant of Duke Energy), erroneously attributed this contamination to Sutton Lake in West Virginia.