 Utikuma Lake and Winagami Lake are also located in the municipality.Big Lakes County was previously known as the Municipal District of Big Lakes prior to March 6, 2015.As a census subdivision in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Big Lakes County recorded a population of 5,672 living in 2,099 of its 2,728 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 5,912.