Official Name: | Cordry Sweetwater Lakes, Indiana |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | Indiana |
Pushpin Label: | Cordry Sweetwater Lakes |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Brown |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Hamblen |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 8.56 |
Area Land Km2: | 6.91 |
Area Water Km2: | 1.66 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 3.30 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 2.67 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.64 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 1274 |
Population Density Km2: | 184.48 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 477.87 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 876 |
Coordinates: | 39.3086°N -86.1264°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 46164 |
Area Code: | 812 & 930 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 18-15115[2] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 2629877 |
Cordry Sweetwater Lakes is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hamblen Township, Brown County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 1,128 at the 2010 census.[3] Sweetwater Lake is 260 acres in size.
Cordry Sweetwater Lakes had its start in the 1960s with the completion of the Cordry and Sweetwater dams. The dams impounded the Cordry and Sweetwater lakes, around which property developers built up the community.[4]
Cordry Sweetwater Lakes is located in northeastern Brown County. It consists of a residential community surrounding two reservoirs, Cordry Lake and Sweetwater Lake.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.8km2, of which 7.1sqkm is land and 1.7sqkm, or 18.94%, is water.[3]