English Lake is an unincorporated community in Railroad Township, Starke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana, located along the Kankakee River.

He listed the area as sandy, with rolling hills and trees including oak, hickory, aspen, gum, sassafras, whatleberry, elm, ash, maple, willow, and birch.

The Kankakee Valley Daring Company failed that year due to lack of funds.

[5] In 1887 and 1897 additional attempts to create a drainage program failed due to local protests over the assessments to be used to pay for the project.

[5] The court case was over a bill passed by the state legislature in 1899 to begin the ditching effort.

In 1900, the ditching case was elevated to the Circuit Court and there were proposals to change the route and not to assess local land owners for the cost.