Brentwood Lake is an
unincorporated community
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in far eastern
Carlisle Township,
Lorain County
Lorain County is a County (United States), county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 312,964. Its county seat is Elyria, Ohio, Elyria. The county was physicall ...
,
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
,
United States
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. It lies at the intersection of State Routes
57 and
82 midway between
Elyria Elyria may refer to:
*Elyria, Ohio
Elyria ( ) is a city in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area and the county seat of Lorain County, Ohio, Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River (Ohio), Black ...
and
Grafton. Located at the center of the
planned community
A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve ...
was a small lake, compliments of an earthen dam from which a small stream flows to the East Branch
Black River that runs just to the west of the community. The earthen dam was dismantled in 2010
for safety reasons and today there is only a small stream without a lake. Mr. Alfred M. Moen, the inventor of the Moen faucet, was a past resident of the lakeside community.
References
Unincorporated communities in Lorain County, Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Ohio
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