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The lake was created by damming the Patoka River about 118.3 miles (190.4 km) above its mouth with the Patoka Lake Dam, a 145 feet (44 m) high rockfill earthen dam that was completed in 1978. [3] The lake is fed by several smaller tributaries including Allen Creek, Painter Creek, and Ritter Creek.
Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge is a 50,000-acre (202 km 2) wildlife refuge operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in southeast Indiana, United States, near Madison, Indiana.
Construction of the Oakdale Dam began in 1923 and was completed in 1925, damming the waters of the Tippecanoe River. The earthen dam is 58 feet (18 m) high, has a maximum capacity of 40,540 acre-feet (50,010,000 m 3 ), normal capacity of 26,140 acre-feet (32,240,000 m 3 ), and is owned by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Indiana.. 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).
Tippecanoe is drained by the Tippecanoe River which flows generally south to the Wabash River. The river ends near Battle Ground, Indiana, in Tippecanoe county. Two reservoirs, Lake Shafer and Lake Freeman, are fed by the Tippecanoe River. The reservoirs both have dams controlling inflow from the Tippecanoe River.
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Lake Shafer is one of two reservoirs located in the Twin Lakes area of Monticello, Indiana.It was created along with Lake Freeman in the 1920s when two dams were built outside of Monticello on the Tippecanoe River.
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