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The site of Hoover Dam endures extremely hot weather, and the summer of 1931 was especially torrid, with the daytime high averaging 119.9 °F (48.8 °C). [42] Sixteen workers and other riverbank residents died of heat prostration between June 25 and July 26, 1931.
The construction of Hoover Dam and the resulting rise in the waters of the Colorado River forced the abandonment of the town, with the last resident, Hugh Lord, leaving June 11, 1938. [3] The ruins of St. Thomas, which became visible after the water level in Lake Mead lowered, [4] are protected by the National Park Service as a historic site.
The 2018 novel Lords of St. Thomas, by Jackson Ellis, tells the story of the last family to vacate the flooded town of St. Thomas in 1938, following construction of the Hoover Dam and creation of Lake Mead. [65] Lake Mead, Hoover Dam, and the wrecked B-29 play a large role in the setting of the video game Fallout: New Vegas. [66]
On this day 80 years ago, a crowd of 20,000 people gathered in Nevada to watch President Franklin Delano Roosevelt commemorate the completion of the Hoover Dam. %shareLinks-quote="The work that ...
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Name State(s) Height Type River Coordinates Built ft m; Oroville Dam [1] CA 770.5 234.8 Embankment Feather River: 1968 Hoover Dam [2] AZ NV 726 221 Arch-gravity dam
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The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936. Since then numerous other hydroelectric power stations have surpassed the 1,000 MW threshold, most often through the expansion of existing hydroelectric facilities.