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