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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wyoming. 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 ).
Meeks Cabin Dam (National ID # WY01390) is a dam on the Blacks Fork of the Green River, located in Uinta County, southwestern Wyoming. [1] It impounds Meeks Cabin Reservoir , which is mostly in Wyoming, with a portion extending south over the state line into Utah.
The Bighorn Basin is a plateau region and intermontane basin, approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide, in north-central Wyoming in the United States. It is bounded by the Absaroka Range on the west, the Pryor Mountains on the north, the Bighorn Mountains on the east, and the Owl Creek Mountains and Bridger Mountains on the south.
With five of the fourteen largest reservoirs in the state, the North Platte River is the most dammed river in the state, and provides much of the state's water storage. [citation needed] These reservoirs provide 10,221,672 acre-feet (13 billion cubic metres) of storage.
Buffalo Bill Dam with Shoshone Powerplant at right. The Shoshone Project is an irrigation project in the U.S. state of Wyoming.The project provides irrigation for approximately 107,000 acres (430 km 2) of crops in the Big Horn Basin, fulfilling the vision of local resident and developer Buffalo Bill Cody, who hoped to make the semi-arid basin into agricultural land.
Three Waters Mountain (11,685 ft (3,562 m)) is located in the northern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [3] Three Waters Mountain straddles the Continental Divide and is in both Bridger-Teton and Shoshone National Forests. The mountain receives its name from being the triple point between the watersheds of the Colorado, Columbia ...
Popo Agie Wilderness (/ p oʊ ˈ p oʊ ʒ ə / poh-POH-zhə) [1] [2] is located within Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, United States. The wilderness consists of 101,870 acres (41,230 ha; 159.17 sq mi) on the east side of the continental divide in the Wind River Range. Originally set aside as a primitive area in 1932, in 1984 the Wyoming ...
The basin is also traversed in a north–south direction by U.S. 287 and Wyoming 789. Even today the basin is very sparsely populated, the only incorporated town being Wamsutter, with a population of 203 at the 2020 census. Thunderstorm over the Great Divide Basin