There's an old place name on some maps of Newaygo County Michigan called Devil's Lake Corners near the corner of 24th Street and Stone Road just a couple miles northwest of the city of Fremont. Dudley Lake is on the southwest corner of 24th and Stone and was once known as Devil's Lake. I haven't found anything online with a specific reference to why Dudley Lake was once called Devil's Lake, but the original name likely related to the local Native American tribal place names and mythology. There is another Devil's Lake in Lenawee County (SE lower peninsula) that has historic accounts of the native myths that gave rise to its name so it seems likely a similar story is behind the Dudley/Devil's Lake name in Newaygo County.

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    Genesis 6:4 "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown."
A modern myth has been circulating about a prehistoric tribe of gigantic, fair-skinned, red-haired Native Americans. It is claimed these giants were from an ancient tribe that predates the historical tribes.

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    There are many maritime legends and myths involving the Great Lakes and Lake Michigan is no exception. Lake Michigan has stories about violent storms, shipwrecks, strange atmospheric phenomena, mysterious disappearances, lake monsters, UFOs, and an underwater megalithic stone structure known as the "Lake Michigan Stonehenge". Along with paranormal phenomena, the many unsolved disappearances on Lake Michigan have created an urban legend known as the "Lake Michigan Triangle".
Stories involving natural phenomena are the most easily explained. Shipwrecks due to violent storms, the Chicago skyline mirage seen in Michigan from across the lake, and the town eating sand dunes along the shore plainly have rational explanations.

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