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History. Construction on the dam started in 1929 and was completed in 1931. The resulting reservoir, the Lake of the Ozarks, has a surface area of 55,000 acres (22,000 ha), over 1,150 miles (1,850 km) of shoreline, and stretches 94 miles (151 km) from end to end. At the time of construction, it was the largest man-made lake in United States and ...
The lake was created by the construction of the 2,543-foot-long (775 m) Bagnell Dam by the Union Electric Company of St. Louis, Missouri. The principal engineering firm was Stone and Webster. Construction began August 8, 1929, and was completed in April 1931; the lake reached spillway elevation on May 20, 1931.
In 1929, UE completed Bagnell Dam on the Osage River, creating the Lake of the Ozarks with 1,400 miles of shoreline and a power station that generated almost 175 megawatts of hydroelectricity. [2] The associated Union Electric Administration Building-Lakeside was constructed in 1930; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in ...
The Taum Sauk pumped storage plant is a power station in the St. Francois mountain region of Missouri, United States about 90 miles (140 km) south of St. Louis near Lesterville, Missouri, in Reynolds County. It is operated by Ameren Missouri. The pumped-storage hydroelectric plant was constructed from 1960–1962 and was designed to help meet ...
Bagnell Dam, which forms the Lake of the Ozarks on the Osage River, is 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Bagnell. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , Bagnell has a total area of 0.60 square miles (1.55 km 2 ), of which 0.47 square miles (1.22 km 2 ) are land and 0.13 square miles (0.34 km 2 ), or 21.5%, are water.
Osage River. The Osage River is a 276-mile-long (444 km) [2] tributary of the Missouri River in central Missouri in the United States. The eighth-largest river in the state, it drains a mostly rural area of 15,300 square miles (40,000 km 2). The watershed includes an area of east-central Kansas and a large portion of west-central and central ...
This is a list of rivers in the continental United States by average discharge (streamflow) in cubic feet per second. All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed.
29-40034 [6] GNIS feature ID. 2395596 [4] Website. cityoflakeozark.net. Lake Ozark is a city in Camden and Miller counties in the U.S. state of Missouri, near its namesake, the Lake of the Ozarks. The population was 2,077 at the 2020 census.