Official Name: | Shipshewana Lake, Indiana |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | Indiana#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Shipshewana Lake |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | LaGrange |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Newbury |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.64 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.33 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.31 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 853 |
Coordinates: | 41.685°N -85.6064°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 46565 (Shipshewana) |
Area Code: | 260 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 18-69489 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 2830439 |
Shipshewana Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in LaGrange County, Indiana, United States.
The community is in western LaGrange County, surrounding the natural water body of Shipshewana Lake. It is northwest of the town of Shipshewana and 6miles east of Middlebury.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Shipshewana Lake CDP has a total area of 0.64sqmi, of which 0.33sqmi are land and 0.31sqmi, or 48.12%, are water.[1] The lake drains at its southeast end into Page Ditch, which flows northeast to the Pigeon River, a west-flowing tributary of the St. Joseph River, leading to Lake Michigan.