Lake Mohawk, Ohio Explained

Official Name:Lake Mohawk, Ohio
Settlement Type:Census-designated place
Pushpin Map:Ohio
Pushpin Label:Lake Mohawk
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Ohio
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Carroll
Subdivision Type3:Townships
Subdivision Name3:Brown, Harrison
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:11.59
Area Land Km2:9.50
Area Water Km2:2.08
Area Total Sq Mi:4.47
Area Land Sq Mi:3.67
Area Water Sq Mi:0.81
Population As Of:2020
Population Total:1601
Population Density Km2:168.44
Population Density Sq Mi:436.24
Timezone:Eastern (EST)
Utc Offset:-5
Timezone Dst:EDT
Utc Offset Dst:-4
Elevation Ft:1116
Coordinates:40.6608°N -81.1928°W
Blank Name:FIPS code
Blank Info:39-41443[2]
Blank1 Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank1 Info:2628920

Lake Mohawk is a census-designated place (CDP) in Brown and Harrison townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States, developed around Lake Mohawk, a reservoir. The population of the CDP was 1,601 as of the 2020 census.

History

Lake Mohawk was founded in 1963 by property developers as a planned community.[3]

Geography

The Lake Mohawk community is situated on both sides of Lake Mohawk, a small reservoir on Middle Creek, a tributary of Sandy Creek, part of the Tuscarawas River watershed flowing to the Ohio River. The majority of the lake and community are in Brown Township, with the upstream end of the lake extending south into Harrison Township. The lake's outlet is south of the village of Malvern.

The community was established in 1963 by the American Realty Service Corporation on 1728acres of property. The lake is inside a gated community which contains approximately 1,700 property lots that are privately owned.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Lake Mohawk CDP has a total area of 11.6sqkm, of which 9.5sqkm is land and 2.1sqkm, or 17.99%, is water.[4]

Demographics

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ArcGIS REST Services Directory. United States Census Bureau. September 20, 2022.
  2. Web site: U.S. Census website. United States Census Bureau. January 31, 2008.
  3. Web site: Welcome to Lake Mohawk, OH . LMPOA . December 13, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150322075223/http://www.lake-mohawk.org/ . March 22, 2015 .
  4. Web site: Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Lake Mohawk CDP, Ohio. https://archive.today/20200212193742/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US3941443. dead. February 12, 2020. U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. January 9, 2015.