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The lake is a popular recreation destination in northwestern Wisconsin, in the summer for boating, canoeing, fishing, water skiing, and swimming, and in the winter for ice fishing. On the northeastern shore lies Lake Wissota State Park, popular with campers, hikers, swimmers, and anglers. In popular culture, Lake Wissota is mentioned in the ...
A plaque detailing the history of the Wissota Hydroelectric Dam. It has been estimated that the Chippewa River Valley once contained one-sixth of the United States' white pine stands. The entire valley was extensively logged for this target species from the mid-to-late 19th century. Once the harvest-able timber was gone, farmers began settling ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wisconsin.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
Lake Wissota is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Lafayette in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 2,830 at the 2020 census. The population was 2,830 at the 2020 census.
Logging had begun on the upper Yellow by 1861, when a log-driving dam existed at Hughey. Many such log-driving dams were built to help flush logs out. [5] By 1880 a "winter road" followed the river all the way up the river to Westboro. [6] This would be a "tote road" used by logging operations to supply their crews working upstream.
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the Klamath River, ... The draining of reservoirs on the Klamath River has left a dry lake bed beside a flowing creek.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Round Lake Logging Dam; S. Saint Croix Falls Dam; Swamp Creek (Wisconsin) T. Tainter Lake; W. Wissota ...
Nov. 16—CHIPPEWA FALLS — A plan to raise the CN Railroad bridge on Lake Wissota is now off the tracks. Lafayette Town Chairman Dave Staber said a contract signed a few years ago with CN ...