Official Name: | Big Lake, Indiana |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | Indiana#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Big Lake |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Noble |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Noble |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.87 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.58 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.29 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 902 |
Coordinates: | 41.2747°N -85.4994°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
Postal Code: | 46725 (Columbia City) 46701 (Albion) |
Area Code: | 260 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 2830478 |
Blank1 Name: | FIPS code |
Blank1 Info: | 18-05231 |
Big Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Noble County, Indiana, United States.
Big Lake is in southern Noble County, surrounding the natural lake of the same name. Its southern edge is the Whitley County boundary. Indiana State Road 109 forms the eastern edge of the community; it leads north 4miles to Wolf Lake and south 8miles to Columbia City. Albion, the Noble county seat, is 11miles to the northeast of Big Lake.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Big Lake CDP has an area of 0.87sqmi, of which 0.58sqmi are land and 0.29sqmi, or 33.29%, are water.[1] Big Lake is fed and drained by the Tippecanoe River, a west-flowing tributary of the Wabash River. The lake is just downstream from Crooked Lake, the source of the Tippecanoe.