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Norfork Dam impounds the North Fork River in the U.S. state of Arkansas, creating Norfork Lake. The large reservoir is maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and spans Baxter County, Arkansas, Fulton County, Arkansas and Ozark County, Missouri. The dam is located in the city of Salesville in Baxter County, within the Ozark ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Arkansas.. 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).
The Norfork Tailwater is about 4.8 miles (7.7 km) long and stretches from the dam below Lake Norfork to the White River at Norfork. The community of Salesville lies approximately 1.5 miles west of the dam on Arkansas Highway 177. Norfork is located on Arkansas Highway 5 at the confluence of the Norfork Tailwater with the White River ...
It concurs with AR 5 north until Salesville. North of Salesville, AR 177 serves the Norfork National Fish Hatchery, the Quarry Cove Use Area, and bridges the Norfork Dam. The route turns south to pass through Jordan and Iuka before terminating at AR 223 in Pineville. AR 177 is a 2-lane paved highway for its entire length. [1]
Baxter County has an additional sales and use tax of 1.25% since January 1, 2019. Within Baxter County, the City of Mountain Home has had an additional 2.125% sales and use tax since July 1, 2021, and Cotter has had an additional 2% since January 1, 2022, with the remaining incorporated communities having 1.00% sales and use tax rates. [52]
Salesville is located in central Baxter County at (36.244845, -92.275619 The center of town is at the intersection of Arkansas Highway 5 and 177 , 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Norfork Dam . The North Fork River , after coming out of the dam, forms the eastern boundary of Salesville.
The North Fork River or the North Fork of White River [1] is a 109-mile-long (175 km) [4] tributary of the White River, into which it flows near Norfork, Arkansas.. It rises in the southwest corner of Texas County, at the southeast margin the city of Mountain Grove, and flows generally southwards through the southwest corner of Texas, eastern Douglas and Ozark counties. [5]
Logo used to commemorate 75 years of the Southwestern Power Administration. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn of Texas and Representative Clyde T. Ellis of Arkansas spearheaded the effort to make all federal dams constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the region to stay owned and operated by the military while the hydroelectric power stations were to be managed and marketed by the ...