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Kaw Lake is a reservoir completed in 1976 in the northern reaches of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, near Kaw City which is located on a hill overlooking the lake. The lake is approximately 8 miles (13 km) east of Ponca City. [1] Newkirk is 6 miles (9.7 km) west of the upper end of the lake. Kaw Dam is 9,466 feet (2,885 m) long and 121 feet (37 m ...
Optima Lake was built to be a reservoir in Texas County, Oklahoma.The site is just north of Hardesty and east of Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle. [2]The earthen Optima Lake Dam (National ID # OK20510) was completed in 1978 (46 years ago) () by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with a height of 120 feet (37 m), and a length at its crest of 16,875 feet (5,144 m). [3]
Oklahoma has more than 200 lakes created by dams. All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes at least 10 acres in size. The largest, near the Red River in McCurtain County, is 272 acres. Playa lakes are found in saucer-shaped depressions in the high plains region.
May 1—U.S. Sen. Jon Tester on Monday called on a federal inter-agency group charged with managing dams and reservoirs to immediately begin taking steps to avoid low water levels in Flathead Lake ...
Lake Lawtonka is a lake in Comanche County in the state of Oklahoma in the United States. [4][5] The lake is 2 square miles (5 km 2) in area. It is formed by a dam 60 feet (18 m) and 375 feet (114 m) long across Medicine Creek. [6][7] The lake provides the water supply for the Fort Sill and Lawton communities as situated south of the water ...
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Stanley Draper is a reservoir in southeast Oklahoma City, United States. It is one of three municipal reservoirs in the city. [a] Principal construction on the reservoir occurred between 1962-1963. Upon completion it was named after the long-time director of the Oklahoma City Chamber of ...
Lake Texoma is situated on the border between Oklahoma and Texas in the Oklahoma counties of Bryan, Marshall, Johnston, and Love, and the Texas counties of Grayson and Cooke. [6] It has a surface area of 89,000 acres (360 km 2 ), a conservation water volume of 2,525,568 acre⋅ft (3.115242 km 3 ), and a flood-control volume of 5,194,163 acre⋅ ...
Muskogee, Oklahoma. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Tenkiller Ferry Lake, or more simply, Lake Tenkiller, is a reservoir in eastern Oklahoma formed by the damming of the Illinois River. The earth-fill dam was constructed between 1947 and 1952 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for purposes of flood control, hydroelectric ...