Census Data for Forest Lake

As far as we can tell, Forest Lake has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.

While we don't have census information for Forest Lake, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:

• Chatham
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatham
  • Chatham is located in Alger County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chatham <1>
• Munising
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munising
  • Munising is located in Alger County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Munising <1>
• Marquette
  (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marquette
  • Marquette is located in Marquette County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marquette <1>

Alger County ...

Forest Lake is located in Alger County<2>.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Alger County.

Miscellaneous Information for Forest Lake ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Alger County or the community of Forest Lake:

• The GNIS Codes ...
  • The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Forest Lake:
  • GNIS ID for Forest Lake: 1619955
  • GNIS ID for Alger County: 1622944
  • GNIS ID for State of Michigan: 1779789

• The FIPS Codes ...
  • An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
  • State Code: 26 (Michigan)
  • County Code: 003 (Alger County)
  • Place Code: 29620 (Forest Lake)
  • State & County Code: 26/003 (Michigan / Alger County)
  • State & Place Code: 26/29620 (Michigan / Forest Lake)

• Misc. Census Codes ...
  • Forest Lake is located in Census Region #2 (the Midwest Region) and Division #3 (the East North-Central Division).

For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Forest Lake.