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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.
United States: Homer City, Pennsylvania: Tallest chimney in the United States. This chimney is no longer in service, being replaced by one of 860 ft (260 m) that serves the flue gas scrubber retro-fitted to Unit 3 in 2001. Kennecott Smokestack: 1,215 ft: 370.4 m: 1974 United States: Magna, Utah: Tallest chimney west of the Mississippi.
Kennecott Utah Copper LLC’s Garfield Smelter Stack is a 1,215-foot (370 m) high smokestack west of Magna, Utah, alongside Interstate 80 near the Great Salt Lake. It was built to disperse exhaust gases from the Kennecott Utah Copper smelter at Garfield, Utah. [1]
Smokestack 368.5 m Pinnacle Towers Tower Church Point: Church Point, Louisiana: Guyed Mast 368.5 m WTVY Radio Tower: Webb, Alabama: Guyed Mast 367.8 m SpectraSite Tower Conroe: Conroe, Texas: Guyed Mast 367.6 m Chimney of Mitchell Power Plant: Moundsville, West Virginia: Chimney 367.4 m WDAY TV Tower: Amenia, North Dakota: Guyed Mast 367 m ...
Mitchell Power Plant is a large coal fired power station located on West Virginia Route 2 south of Moundsville, West Virginia, United States. 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.
Its 382-foot (116 m) [4] smokestack is the tallest structure in Nassau County, and among the tallest on Long Island. [5] It is a easily visible from the Meadowbrook State Parkway, which passes directly in front of it. [6] [7]
The second-tallest structure in Nevada is the Moapa Entravision Tower at Moapa, a 426.7 m (1,400 ft) tall guyed TV mast at Moapa erected in 2008, the third-tallest is the 401 m (1,316 ft) tall Moapa Kemp Tower at Moapa, the fourth-tallest is Stratosphere Tower near downtown Las Vegas, which was erected in 1994–96 and reaches 1,149 ft (350 m ...
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.