Crowder Lake University Park is a reservoir in Washita County, Oklahoma, 8 miles (13 km) south of Weatherford on SH 54, 2 miles (3.2 km) east and 1 mile (1.6 km) south on County Road, then 0.75 miles (1.21 km) west on Park Road.
Cobb Creek Site 1 (as the reservoir was originally named) was constructed on Cobb Creek[2] for flood control in 1958 by the Deer Creek Conservation District with assistance of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Program.
Because of later development downstream, the dam was reclassified as high hazard in 2006.
[3] In 1983 the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department (OTRD) created a state park around the lake and which it named as Crowder Lake State Park.
In 1997 SWOSU took over management of the park and in 2003 the OTRD transferred the lake to SWOSU and it became known as Crowder Lake University Park.