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  2. List of tallest chimneys - Wikipedia

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    Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, tall chimneys were built, at the beginning with bricks, and later also of concrete or steel.Although chimneys never held the absolute height record, they are among the tallest free-standing architectural structures and often hold national records (as tallest free-standing or as overall tallest structures of a country).

  3. Anaconda Smelter Stack - Wikipedia

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    The Anaconda Smelter Stack is the tallest surviving masonry structure in the world, with an overall height of about 585 feet (178.3 m), including a brick chimney 555 feet (169.2 m) tall and the downhill side of a concrete foundation 30 feet (9.1 m) tall.

  4. Kennecott Garfield Smelter Stack - Wikipedia

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    The Garfield Smelter Stack is the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River, the fourth tallest smokestack in the world and the fifty-ninth tallest free-standing structure on earth. It is approximately as tall as the Berlin TV Tower, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, or the Bank of America Tower in New York City. It is ...

  5. White Bluff Power Plant - Wikipedia

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    The White Bluff Power Plant is a 1,800.0-megawatt coal-fired power station operated by Entergy Arkansas in Barraque Township, Arkansas. [1] The plant is owned and operated by Entergy and has one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 305 metres (1,001 ft), which was built in 1980.

  6. Inco Superstack - Wikipedia

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    From the date of its completion until the Ekibastuz GRES-2 chimney was constructed in 1987, [10] it was the world's tallest smokestack. Between the years 1972–75 it was the tallest freestanding structure in Canada. Blackened rocks in 2012. Prior to the construction of the Superstack, the waste gases contributed to severe local ecological damage.

  7. Widows Creek Fossil Plant - Wikipedia

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    It had one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 305 metres (1,001 ft), which was built in 1977, and was removed December 3, 2020 in a controlled demolition. [1] Along with the Chimney of the Harllee Branch Power Plant , it is the tallest chimney to be demolished in the United States.

  8. Mountaineer Power Plant - Wikipedia

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    Owned by American Electric Power (AEP), it has one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 336 metres (1,102 ft). This chimney was built as part of the plant in 1980 and is not in use now. It has been replaced by a slightly shorter and wider chimney for the electrostatic precipitator and scrubber units.

  9. Mitchell Power Plant - Wikipedia

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    It has a 1,206-foot (368 m) tall chimney, which was built in 1971. [1] This smokestack was once the tallest in the world for a short period of time. As of 2013 it is the sixth tallest, and still the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern United States. [2]