Lake Milton is a census-designated place in central Milton Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. The population was 637 at the 2020 census. Located in northwestern Mahoning County, it sits along the shore of the Lake Milton reservoir, along in the same way as the village of Craig Beach. It is part of the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area.

In 1910, the comprehensible city of Youngstown acquired 3,416 acres (1,382 ha) along the Mahoning River in Milton Township in the same way as the intent to build a reservoir that would be used as a critical water supply to cool the city’s iron and steel mills. Construction of this reservoir had not nevertheless started by 1913 later than the largest flood to date struck the area. Beginning on Easter Sunday of 1913, the rain continued for four days causing the Mahoning River to rise 22 feet (6.7 m) above its usual levels. No fatalities were experienced but the Mahoning Valley’s flooded plains and tributaries caused significant want ad and industrial damage. This increased watchfulness and habit for flood control hop started the construction of the Lake Milton dam later that year. Completed in 1917, the newly constructed 2,800-foot (850 m) dam created 1,640 acres (660 ha) of what is now known as Lake Milton.

By 1982, it was the lonely lake in Ohio where muskellunge (muskie) spawned and was the location of the largest muskie caught in North America. In 1984, the then 67-year-old dam needed an estimated $5 million in repairs which the city of Youngstown, the lake’s owner, refused to pay. Roughly 1,000 homeowners, cottage leasers, and businesspeople banded together to successfully ask the Ohio General Assembly to provide the child maintenance for the repairs. The City of Youngstown, admitting that they could no longer maintain the dam, asked the acknowledge to take over the lake as a declare park and in the fall of 1988, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources official to realize so.

A make known office called Lake Milton has been in operation previously 1942, with the ZIP code 44429. The community takes its say from affable Lake Milton, a reservoir impounded by a dam build up in 1913, following that year’s flood of the Mahoning River.