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Kiser Lake State Park is a public recreation area in Champaign County, Ohio, located four miles (6.4 km) northwest of St. Paris and 34 miles (55 km) north of Dayton. [2] The 531-acre (215 ha) state park includes 396-acre (160 ha) Kiser Lake , for which it was named, and the 51-acre (21 ha) Kiser Lake Wetlands State Nature Preserve .
The following is a list of lakes in Ohio.According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, there are approximately 50,000 lakes and small ponds, with a total surface area of 200,000 acres, and among these there are 2,200 lakes of 5 acres (2.0 ha) or greater with a total surface area of 134,000 acres. [1]
In 1932, John W. Kiser and his family owned the land and donated several hundred acres to the State of Ohio to rebuild the lake for recreational purposes. In 1939, work on the dam started, and in 1940, all work was completed on the dam and Kiser Lake was filled. [3] The lake is maintained by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Tracy Gordon has admitted to drinking eight beers before the fatal boat crash on Lake Murray, South Carolina, that killed Stan Kiser. ‘I did not see any lights,’ says defendant in fatal ...
Kiser Lake Wetlands State Nature Preserve, or simply Kiser Lake Wetlands, is a 51 acres (21 ha) nature reserve located in Johnson Township, Champaign County, Ohio, United States. It is located wholly within the Kiser Lake State Park , and operated by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources .
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. [2] 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 2,830-acre (1,150 ha) lake. [2]
The area where St. Paris now stands was originally inhabited by Native Americans.The first white settlers arrived in 1797 and the village was founded in Johnson Township [5] in 1831 by David Huffman, who originally named it New Paris, after the French capital city of Paris.
Kiser is a variation spelling of the Germanic Kaiser surname, and is pronounced in the same manner as Kaiser. This spelling originated before Standard German was codified, in territory that today falls within the mountainous Black Forest area of Germany and neighboring areas of Switzerland .