Caesar Creek State Park is a public recreation area 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 Caesar Creek to impound a 2830 acre lake. The total park area, including the lake, is 7530 acre. Fossil collection is allowed at Caesar Creek State Park with the following restrictions: No tools allowed, no fossil collecting for commercial use, all fossils kept must fit in the palm of your hand, and all fossil collection must take place in the designated fossil collection zone.

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Dam

The dam is an earth and rock fill dam 165 ft high and 2750 ft long. The Army Corps site is an area of 10550 acre. The watershed above the dam has an area of 237 sqmi. Construction started in 1971 and was finished in 1978. The Army Corps site states: The site is in the Warren County townships of Massie and Wayne.

Flooding of New Burlington

The construction of the Caesar Creek Lake flooded the small farming village of New Burlington, Ohio in 1978. The history of the community was collected through stories, letters, and journals in the book New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village by John Baskin.

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