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Brookville Lake Dam (National ID # IN03017) is a dam in Brookville Township, Franklin County, Indiana, just north of Brookville, in the southeastern part of the state. The earthen dam was constructed in 1974 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers with a height of 181 feet (55 m) and 2,800 feet (850 m) long at its crest. [ 2 ]
The lake was added to the state park system in 1950. The park offers marinas, boat ramps, swimming beaches, picnic areas, hiking trails and nature center. [ 4 ] Two significant archaeological sites dating from the Hopewellian period are located in the park, the Rocky Fork Park Group and the Rocky Fork Park Site .
It is 3 miles (5 km) east of Blooming Grove, 6 miles (10 km) north of Brookville and 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Connersville. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Lakeshore Resort CDP has a total area of 0.38 square miles (0.98 km 2 ), of which 0.001 square miles (0.003 km 2 ), or 0.26%, are water.
It was depopulated in the late 1960s in preparation for construction of the Brookville Lake Dam, which was completed in 1974 after several years of delay. History
Brookville is also at the southern end of Brookville Lake, impounded in 1974 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. According to the 2010 census, Brookville has a total area of 1.54 square miles (3.99 km 2 ), of which 1.5 square miles (3.88 km 2 ) (or 97.4%) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2 ) (or 2.6%) is water.
Brookville Lake: Franklin County: Cagles Mill Lake: Putnam County: Cecil Harden Lake ... Salamonie Lake: Huntington County: See also. List of Indiana state parks;
Cities and towns on the Whitewater River (north to south) include Hagerstown, Cambridge City, Connersville, Laurel, Metamora, Brookville, Harrison (Ohio), and Lawrenceburg. Richmond, Indiana is on the East Fork of the Whitewater River and is the most significant town in the river valley, containing most of the population of the valley. The West ...
Whitewater Memorial is the sixteenth state park in Indiana.It is located 47 miles (76 km) in Union County, Indiana, west-southwest of Dayton, Ohio.At 23,000 acres (93 km 2), it is the third-largest state park in Indiana; its seventeen miles (27 km) stretches between Brookville, Indiana, and Liberty, Indiana, paralleled by Indiana State Road 101.