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Lake Oahe (/ oʊˈwɑː.hiː /) is a large reservoir behind Oahe Dam on the Missouri River; it begins in central South Dakota and continues north into North Dakota in the United States. The lake has an area of 370,000 acres (1,500 km 2) and a maximum depth of 205 ft (62 m). [1] By volume, it is the fourth-largest reservoir in the US. [1]
The Oahe Dam (/ oʊˈɑːhiː /) is a large earthen dam on the Missouri River, just north of Pierre, South Dakota, United States. Begun in 1948 and opened in 1962, the dam creates Lake Oahe, the fourth-largest man-made reservoir in the United States. The reservoir stretches 231 miles (372 km) up the course of the Missouri to Bismarck, North Dakota.
Great Salt Lake: Utah: 950 sq mi 2,460 km 2: natural salt [4] 9 Lake Oahe: North Dakota–South Dakota: 685 sq mi 1,774 km 2: man-made [5] 10 Lake Okeechobee: Florida: 662 sq mi 1,715 km 2: natural [6] 11 Lake Pontchartrain: Louisiana: 631 sq mi 1,634 km 2: natural brackish [7] 12 Lake Sakakawea: North Dakota: 520 sq mi 1,347 km 2: man-made 13 ...
Sam Fosness, The Daily Republic, Mitchell, S.D. November 12, 2023 at 7:49 PM. Nov. 12—GETTYSBURG — Less than three weeks after a North Dakota angler reeled in a state record-size walleye on ...
The Moreau River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 200 miles (320 km) long, in South Dakota in the United States. Moreau River has the name of a pioneer trader. [ 4] It rises in two forks in northwestern South Dakota, in the Badlands of Butte and Harding Counties. The North Fork rises approximately 10 miles (16 km) northeast ...
The lower 15 mi (24 km) of the river form an arm of the Lake Oahe reservoir. It is the northernmost of South Dakota's major West River streams: the Grand, Moreau , Cheyenne , Bad , and White . Draining about 5,200 square miles (13,000 km 2 ) of the northern plateaus of the state, the Grand receives most of its water from snowmelt.
Garrison Dam. Garrison Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Missouri River in central North Dakota, U.S. Constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1947 to 1953, at over two miles (3.2 km) in length, the dam is the fifth-largest earthen dam in the world. [4] The reservoir impounded by the dam is Lake Sakakawea, which extends to ...
More than 200,000 acres (810 km 2) on the Standing Rock Reservation and the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota were flooded by the Oahe Dam alone. As of 2015, poverty remains a problem for the displaced populations in the Dakotas. They have sought compensation for their towns submerged under Lake Oahe, and the loss of traditional ways ...