Managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lake surface covers 1,800 acres (7.3 km2).

There are about 6,000 acres (24 km2) of public hunting land managed by the Corps of Engineers and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation adjacent to the lake.

[1] The lake was created in 1942 by damming Wolf Creek, although the work actually began in 1938.

[2] The primary purposes of the lake are for flood control and conservational storage.

[1] The Corps of Engineers and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation manage the adjacent hunting area.