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Osage Beach was founded in 1886 as Zebra before being renamed as Osage Beach in 1935. Osage Beach was incorporated in 1959. [4] [5] When the Lake of the Ozarks was created, it caused the flooding of much of Zebra. Most of the town's merchants chose not to establish new locations. [6]
Lake of the Ozarks is a reservoir created by impounding the Osage River in the northern part of the Ozarks in central Missouri. Parts of three smaller tributaries to the Osage are included in the impoundment: the Niangua River, Grandglaize Creek, and Gravois Creek. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres (220 km 2) and 1,150 miles (1,850 km ...
Location: Camden and Miller counties, Missouri, United States: Nearest city: Osage Beach, Missouri: Coordinates: 1]: Area: 17,626.55 acres (71.3321 km 2) [2]: Elevation: 771 ft (235.0 m) [1]: Designation: Missouri state park: Established: 1946 [3]: Visitors: 1,347,337 (in 2022) [4]: Administrator: Missouri Department of Natural Resources: Website: Lake of the Ozarks State Park: Lake of the ...
The Osage River is a 276-mile-long (444 km) [2] tributary of the Missouri River in central Missouri in the United States. The eighth-largest river in the state, it drains a mostly rural area of 15,300 square miles (40,000 km 2). The watershed includes an area of east-central Kansas and a large portion of west-central and central Missouri, where ...
osagecountygov.com. Osage County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,274. [1] Its county seat is Linn. [2] The county was organized January 29, 1841, and named from the Osage River. [3] Osage County is part of the Jefferson City, MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History. Construction on the dam started in 1929 and was completed in 1931. The resulting reservoir, the Lake of the Ozarks, has a surface area of 55,000 acres (22,000 ha), over 1,150 miles (1,850 km) of shoreline, and stretches 94 miles (151 km) from end to end. At the time of construction, it was the largest man-made lake in United States and ...
Location. The Grand Glaize Bridge, sometime before 1968. The Grand Glaize Bridge is the name of two girder bridges that carry U.S. Route 54 over the Grand Glaize Arm of the Lake of the Ozarks in the city of Osage Beach, Missouri. The bridge crosses Grand Glaize Creek that is a tributary to the Osage River in Camden County, Missouri.
Route description. In Missouri, US 54 runs from the southwest portion of the state to the northeast. It is a major conduit through the Ozarks and is the primary access road to Pomme de Terre Lake and Lake of the Ozarks. After entering the state from neighboring Kansas, the route moves eastward through many rural towns and communities.