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Largest lake, shared with South Dakota. Long 155 5 mph Brown south of Ainsworth Mallard Landing 90 Douglas County: private lake Maloney: 1,650 Lincoln: near North Platte McConaughy: 30,500 Keith: near Ogallala. Largest lake entirely within the State of Nebraska. Lake Minatare: 2,158 Scotts Bluff NE of Scotts Bluff Ogallala 650 5 mph Keith near ...
The names of the two lakes were changed in 1903, with Little Clam Lake renamed as Lake Cadillac (for the renamed community) and Big Clam Lake as Lake Mitchell, in honor of William W. Mitchell, the nephew and business partner of George A. Mitchell. [4] Following the passing of the lumber era the lake became a regional tourist destination.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Capitol Beach Lake; Carter Lake (Iowa–Nebraska) Conestoga Lake; Czechland Lake Recreation ...
Nebraska hydrogeology is known through extensive irrigation well drilling for agriculture. In the early 1990s, a USGS study focused on Shelton, Nebraska and the Platte River found Holocene and Pleistocene sand and gravel deposits interbedded with clay and silt between 45 and 100 feet thick, overlying other Quaternary silt deposits between 10 ...
Lewis and Clark Lake and Gavins Point Dam. Lewis and Clark Lake was created as a result of the construction of Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River, completed in 1957. The lake is approximately 25 miles (40 km) long, with a surface area of 31,400 acres (127 km 2), and over 90 miles (140 km) of shoreline; it has a maximum depth of 45 feet (14 ...
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 ).
With a surface covering 13,250 acres (54 km 2), the Harlan County Reservoir lake sits in bottom lands of the Republican River Valley. Located seven miles (11 km) from the Nebraska/Kansas border, the lake is nine miles (14 km) long and has about 75 miles (121
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) reported that "climate change poses significant risks to Nebraska's economy, environment and citizens". [1] This view is expanded upon by the United States Environmental Protection Agency: "Nebraska's climate is changing. In the past century, most of the state has warmed by at least one degree (F).