Lake Map No. Just under 300 acres, it has a crooked shoreline to justify its name, and a number of islands, some of them quite large. While fairly deep, it does seem to have an unusually large number of nearly submerged and barely submerged rocks of some size, at some distance from shore.
Due caution is advised.
Crooked sits 90 rods and 14' below larger Gillis to the north while a 55 rod portage to the east links it to Owl and beyond to Tuscarora . A southeast arm of the lake becomes Jerry Lake and a 50 rod portage due south connects with Tarry and on to Mora . The forests ringing Crooked appear to have all burned in the great fire of 1864, with most of the eastern and western shores burning again in 1875. The south shore contains some remnant stands dating from an 1801 fire, mixed in among the 1864 forest. The large islands in the northeastern corner of the lake have additional 1801 remnant stands in and among the younger forest of 1875 origins.