Tooms Lake is a rural locality and a lake in the local government areas (LGA) of Northern Midlands, Southern Midlands, and Glamorgan-Spring Bay in the Central and South-east LGA regions of Tasmania.

Amenities include a camping ground, boat ramp, public toilet and rubbish bin.

[13] Water flowing from the Tooms Lake has an average electrical conductivity of 74 μS/cm.

[14] On 6 December 1828 a massacre of Aboriginal Tasmanians occurred, in which ten were killed by nine soldiers from the 40th regiment.

[15] [verification needed] John Danvers, the guide of the group, reported to the Oatlands police magistrate: One of them getting up from a small fire to a large one, discovered us and gave the alarm to the rest, and the whole of them jumpt [sic] up immediately and attempted to take up their spears in defence, and seeing that, we immediately fired and repeated it because we saw they were on the defensive part, they were about twenty in Number and several of whom were killed, two only were, unfortunately taken alive.A woman and a boy were captured and the rest of the group escaped.