The Youghiogheny River Lake is a flood control reservoir that is located in southwestern Pennsylvania and western Maryland.

It is a significant tourist attraction that brings in more than one million visitors a year to the area.

[3] This lake was formed in 1944 by the damming of the Youghiogheny River upstream from Confluence, Pennsylvania.

[4] The dam facilitates flood control, improves river flow and provides twelve megawatts of hydroelectric power.

[5] Somerfield was laid out on the western edge of Addison Township, Somerset County circa 1816 by Philip D. Smyth, who originally named the settlement Smythfield.