Lake Mohawk, Ohio
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Lake Mohawk is a
census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in Brown and Harrison townships in 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.


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 Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its river mouth, mouth on the Mississippi Riv ...
. 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 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 , of which is land and , or 17.99%, is water.


Demographics


References

{{Authority control Census-designated places in Carroll County, Ohio