Caesar Creek State Park

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Caesar Creek State Park
Location Ohio U.S.A.
Nearest city Waynesville, Ohio
Area 3,741 acres (15 km²) land 2,830 acres (11 km²) water
Established 1978
Governing body Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Caesar Creek Lake
Caesar Creek Lake -
Location Ohio
Lake type reservoir
Primary inflows Caesar Creek
Primary outflows Caesar Creek
Basin countries United States
Surface area 2,830 acre (11 km²)

Caesar Creek State Park is located in southwestern Ohio, five miles (8 km) east of Waynesville, in Warren, Clinton, and Greene Counties. The park is leased by the State from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who in the 1970s erected a dam on Caesars Creek to impound a 2,830 acre (11 km²) lake. The total park area, including the lake, is 7,941 acres (32 km²). The park has 43 miles (69 km) of hiking trails and 31 miles (50 km) of bridle trails.

The Army Corps site states:

Congress authorized Caesar Creek Lake under the Flood Control Act of 1938. The Louisville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers designed, built, and operates Caesar Creek Lake.
During the fall and winter months, the lake level is lowered to prepare for the storage of heavy spring rainfall. If heavy rains occur, surface water runoff is stored in the lake until the swollen streams and rivers below the dam have receded. Once they can handle the discharge of the stored water without damage to lives or property, the extra water is released.

The dam is an earth and rock fill dam 165 feet (50 m) high and 2,750 feet (840 m) long. The Army Corps site is an area of 10,550 acres (43 km²). The watershed above the dam has an area of 237 square miles (614 km²). Construction started in 1971 and was finished in 1978.

The village of New Burlington was flooded by the lake. The site is in the Warren County townships of Massie and Wayne.

[edit] References

  • John Baskin. New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village. New York: W. W. Norton, 1976. ISBN 0-393-08366-7
  • Ohio. Department of Natural Resources. Division of Geological Survey. Excursion to Caesar Creek State Park in Warren County, Ohio. By Douglas L. Shrake. Geological Survey Guidebook No. 12. Columbus, Ohio: The Department, 1992
  • United States Department of Agriculture. Natural Resources Conservation Service. Caesar Creek Watershed, Miami Valley Resource Conservation and Development Area : Clinton, Greene, and Warren Counties, Ohio. Fort Worth, Texas: The Service, 1995.
  • United States. Department of the Army. Corps of Engineers. Louisville District. Final Updated Environmental Impact Statement: Caesar Creek Lake Project, Ohio. Louisville, Kentucky: The Corps, 1974.
  • Art Weber. Ohio State Parks. Saginaw, Michigan: Glovebox Guidebooks, 1995. ISBN 1-881139-04-2.

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