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Beaver Dam is a home rule-class city [3] in Ohio County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 3,409 at the 2010 census, and it is the most populous community in the county. It is named for the Beaver Dam Baptist Church which predates the town by several decades. [4] The city was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1873. [5]
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Kentucky.. 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).
A balefill is a type of landfill (municipal solid waste disposal) where solid waste is compacted and baled, typically held together with steel strapping or wrapped in plastic. This substantially reduces the volume of trash and hauling volume, allowing a better use of landfill space.
Ohio County was formed in 1798 from land taken from Hardin County. [3] Ohio was the 35th Kentucky county in order of formation. [4] It was named for the Ohio River, which originally formed its northern boundary, but it lost its northern portions in 1829, when Daviess County and Hancock County were formed.
From a 1939 flood that killed 79 people, to a 1997 flood that affected 50,000 homes in just one city, here are some of the past major flooding events in Kentucky.
US 231 meets U.S. Route 62 in the Beaver Dam/Hartford area after crossing the Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway on the south side of Beaver Dam. [ 3 ] US 231 goes further north into Daviess County to join up with US 60 ( Wendell H. Ford Expressway ) to bypass Owensboro.
It is located about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) southeast of Beaver Dam. Interstate 165 (formerly the William H. Natcher Parkway) provides direct access to Cromwell via the Exit 33 interchange with U.S. 231 just south of the Ohio-Butler County line.
The Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area is a national, bi-state area on the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States, administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.