Englewood Dam is on the Stillwater River. It is 4,716 feet long and 110.5 feet high. The drainage area above the dam is 650 square miles. It would take 28 days to empty the retarding basin after a maximum high-water event. Englewood Dam can store 101.68 billion gallons of floodwater.
Englewood Dam is part of a system of five earthen flood control dams built and managed by the Miami Conservancy District after the flood of 1913. Construction of the dam began in February of 1918 and was completed in December of 1921.
The park opened to the public on April 1, 1967. The land, part of the Stillwater River flood control system created in 1922 by the Miami Conservancy District, was leased to MetroParks 1966 to become the start of Englewood MetroPark.
