Local Aboriginal groups have named all of the peaks within Moogerah Peaks National Park. Mount Greville is 'Moogerah' (along with the area between the mountain peak and Cunningham's Gap is also known as 'Moogerah') meaning thunder. Mount Edwards is known as 'Wummun' while Mount Moon takes its name from 'Moorm', which means 'old walkabout mountain'. The two peaks of Mount French are known as 'Punchagin' the southern peak and 'Mee-bor-rum' the northern peak.
Mount Greville, named by Allan Cunningham in 1828 in honour of the Scottish botanist Robert Kaye Greville, was the first of the peaks to be gazetted as national park, in 1948. Mount Moon followed in 1953. Mount Edwards, originally named Mount Banister by explorer John Oxley in 1824 and renamed by Alan Cunningham in 1828 after Lieutenant George Edwards, was gazetted in 1966.
After the original proposal for national park in 1953, a small section on Mount French was gazetted national park because of its scenic and historic values in 1967. In 1994 all the small national park peaks were amalgamated into Moogerah Peaks National Park.
The dam is a mass concrete double curvature wall 219 m in length. The dam holds 83765 ML of water and has a lake surface area of 827 ha. Below the dam is a scenic Reynolds Creek gorge that flows into Warrill Ck & then into the Bremer & Brisbane Rivers. During the 1995 drought dam levels declined to a low of 1% total capacity.
The dam reached 100% capacity due to rainfall associated with the 2010–2011 Queensland floods, with water flowing over the spillway for the first time since 1991 on 6 December 2010.
During the 2013 flood Moogerah Dam reached a record Spillway level of 3.83m on 28th Jan 2013 Overflow. The water continued to spill over for some weeks after the flood event