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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in South Dakota. 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 ).
Map showing the Missouri River basin Garrison Dam, which forms Lake Sakakawea, the largest reservoir on the Missouri River. This is a list of dams in the watershed of the Missouri River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, in the United States. There are an estimated 17,200 dams and reservoirs in the basin, most of which are small, local ...
American Creek (also known as Crow Creek) is a stream in northwestern Bruele County, South Dakota, United States, that is a tributary of the Lake Francis Case reservoir on the Missouri River. [1] The creek's headwaters are just east of the town of Pukwana and its mouth is in the city of Chamberlain .
Randall Creek Recreation Area is a South Dakota state recreation area in Gregory County, South Dakota in the United States. The recreation area is 184 acres (74 ha) and lies directly below Fort Randall Dam, along the banks of the Missouri River. The area is open for year-round recreation including camping, swimming, fishing, hiking and boating. [1]
Big Bend Dam is a major embankment rolled-earth dam on the Missouri River in Central South Dakota, United States, creating Lake Sharpe. The dam was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Pick-Sloan Plan for Missouri watershed development authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944. Construction began in 1959 and the ...
Chamberlain is a city in Brule County, South Dakota, United States. It is located on the east bank of the Missouri River, at the dammed section of the Lake Francis Case, close to where it is crossed by Interstate 90. The population of Chamberlain was 2,473 at the 2020 census. [6] It is the county seat of Brule County. [7]
Fort Randall Dam is a 2.03-mile-long (3 km) earthen dam which spans the Missouri River and impounds Lake Francis Case, the 11th-largest reservoir in the U.S. [2] The dam joins Gregory and Charles Mix counties, South Dakota, a distance of 880 river miles (1,416 km) upstream of St. Louis, Missouri, where the river joins the Mississippi River.
Canyon Ferry Lake near Helena, Montana Van Hook Arm of Lake Sakakawea, upriver of the Garrison-Dam in North Dakota Big Bend Dam and Lake Sharpe at Fort Thompson, South Dakota Lake Oahe and Dam near Pierre, South Dakota Fort Randall Dam and Lake Francis Case Gavins Point Dam and Lewis and Clark Lake near Yankton, South Dakota. The Pick–Sloan ...