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The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...
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Indiana State Parks (clickable map) This page was last edited on 16 December 2022, at 18:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Indiana. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Under Indiana law, a municipality must have a minimum of 2,000 people to incorporate as a city. Except as noted, all cities are "third-class" cities with a seven-member city council and an elected clerk-treasurer. "Second-class" cities had a population of at least 34,000 and up to 600,000 at time of designation, and have a nine-member city ...
Deam Lake State Recreation Area; Ferdinand State Forest - 7,789.9 acres (10 km 2) Frances Slocum State Forest; Greene–Sullivan State Forest – 9,048.8 acres (1.3 km 2); Athens County; Harrison–Crawford State Forest – 24,322.7 acres (5 km 2) Jackson–Washington State Forest - 18,416.2 acres (38 km 2) Martin State Forest - 7,863.6 acres ...
The 230-acre (0.93 km 2) Versailles Lake was formed in 1954 when a dam was built across Laughery Creek. Near the park's entrance is a statue commemorating the work done by the CCC to improve the land. Efforts to build the statue were led by two local women, Ruth Swinney and her daughter Lisa Ebinger, as well as the Ripley County Historical Society.
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