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This smaller lake has rocky shores, but is well known for great camping and fishing. Lake McConaughy is also a popular location for fishing, boating, water sports, camping and hunting. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (NGPC) operates a State Recreation Area at the lake. NGPC's offices are at the Lake McConaughy Visitors Center just south ...
Kingsley Dam is located on the east side of Lake McConaughy in central Keith County, Nebraska, and was the second largest hydraulic fill dam in the world at the time of its completion. [1] It was built as part of the New Deal project. [2] The dam is 162 feet (49 m) tall, 3.1 miles (5.0 km) long, and 1,100 feet (340 m) wide at its base.
Lemoyne is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northwestern Keith County, Nebraska, United States.As of the 2010 census it had a population of 82. [3]It lies along Nebraska Highway 92 on the northern shore of Lake C.W. McConaughy, 20 miles (32 km) by road north of the city of Ogallala, the county seat of Keith County.
The lake is an impoundment on the North Platte River. The community sits at the intersection of Nebraska Highways 61 and 92. Highway 61 leads south 12 miles (19 km) to Ogallala, the Keith county seat, and north 28 miles (45 km) to Arthur, while Highway 92 leads west along the north side of Lake McConaughy 25 miles (40 km) to Lewellen.
Name Location Volume Maximum Depth notes 1: Lake Superior: Michigan - Minnesota - Ontario - Wisconsin: 9,799,680,000 acre⋅ft (12,088 km 3) 1,332 ft (406 m) Third-largest fresh-water lake in the world by volume
Other eagle-friendly places to check out: in Nebraska the state’s largest reservoir, Lake McConaughy, and Row Sanctuary on the Platte River. yenwen/istockphoto Nevada: Carson Valley
Alaska: Mendenhall Lake. Mendenhall Lake, only 20 minutes from downtown Juneau, is the gateway to view magnificent Mendenhall Glacier. To best explore this natural beauty, rent a kayak and paddle ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Nebraska.. 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).