page_title: Whitmore Lake, Michigan
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Whitmore Lake, Michigan / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Ann Arbor Railroad Depot at Whitmore Lake, Michigan
context_page_description: Whitmore Lake is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community spans the boundary between Green Oak Township in Livingston County and Northfield Township in Washtenaw County. The United States Census Bureau has defined a census-designated place with this name for statistical purposes, which has no legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 6,423 at the 2010 census.
  The community is located about 9 miles north of Ann Arbor and about 9 miles south of Brighton. It is situated around the shores of Whitmore Lake, and the CDP also includes the area around the smaller Horseshoe Lake to the south, Lawton Lake to the east and Monahan Lake to the northeast. U.S. Highway 23 forms the western edge of much of the CDP.
  The Whitmore Lake post office, with ZIP code 48189, serves a larger area than that defined by the CDP and includes portions of southeast Hamburg Township, northeastern Webster Township, and larger parts of Green Oak and Northfield Townships than are included in the CDP.
  The 667-acre Whitmore Lake was named by Jonathan F. Stratton, a surveyor, after Luke H. Whitmore, a local landowner around 1825.
context_section_description: According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.3 square miles (13.7 km²), of which 4.2 square miles (10.9 km²) is land and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km²), or 20.37%, is water.
caption: Ann Arbor Railroad Depot at Whitmore Lake
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