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Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike, originally Engle Dam, [2] is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, in the United States. The dam impounds Elephant Butte Reservoir , which is used mainly for agriculture but also provides for recreation, hydroelectricity, and flood and sediment control.
Surface elevation. 4,414 ft (1,345 m) Elephant Butte Reservoir is a reservoir on the southern part of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Truth or Consequences. The reservoir is the 84th largest man-made lake in the United States and the largest in New Mexico by total surface area and peak volume.
Area. 24,500 acres (99 km 2) Elevation. 4,500 ft (1,400 m) Established. 1964. Governing body. New Mexico State Parks Division. Elephant Butte Lake State Park is a state park of New Mexico, United States, located 7 miles (11 km) north of Truth or Consequences along the shore of Elephant Butte Reservoir in Sierra County.
Elephant Butte State Park is a New Mexico gem. On holiday weekends like Memorial Day, visitors have historically reached 100,000 on each day. Elephant Butte Lake visitor guide: when to visit ...
The Elephant Butte Irrigation District is a 6,870 acres (27.8 km 2) historic district in New Mexico and Texas which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The listing included three contributing buildings and 214 contributing structures, in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Sierra County, New Mexico and El Paso County ...
The Elephant Butte Historic District, a historic district in the Elephant Butte, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The district included 30 contributing buildings , 10 contributing structures and 34 contributing sites on 2,443 acres (9.89 km 2 ), as well as numerous non-contributing resources.
April 9, 1979 (Northwest of Elephant Butte off State Road 51: Elephant Butte: 13: Elephant Butte Historic District: February 10, 1997 (Roughly along State Road 51 from the Elephant Butte Dam to Mescal Canyon and along State Road 52 from Ash Canyon to Long Ridge
The terms of the Compact state that once the Elephant Butte reservoir is filled, New Mexico and Colorado are immediately released from any water debt they have accrued. Colorado's debt to New Mexico at the time, 500,000 acre-feet (620,000,000 m 3 ) of water, was immediately cleared, settling the balance between the two states, but leaving New ...