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Pleasant Hill Lake

body of water

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ18156882 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pleasant Hill Lake is a 783-acre man made lake located near Perrysville and between Ashland and

Richland counties in Ohio. Completed in 1936, Pleasant Hill Dam was built on the Clear Fork of the Mohican River. The dam which forms the lake is a 113 ft (34 m) tall earth-fill dam. It is located in Ashland but the lake extends into Richland. The lake which was constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, was built for the purpose of flood control.

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The public source identifies “Pleasant Hill Lake” as body of water. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pleasant, Hill and Lake.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pleasant, Hill and Lake providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18156882. Authority coordinates are 40.640, -82.342. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pleasant Hill Lake” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.