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The lake is named for the 1874 Oahe Indian Mission. [3] Lake Oahe begins just north of Pierre, South Dakota and extends nearly as far north as Bismarck, North Dakota. Mobridge, South Dakota is located on the eastern shore of the central portion of the lake. Bridges over Lake Oahe include US Route 212 west of Gettysburg, South Dakota and US ...
The construction of main-stream dams also affected other Native American tribes living along the Missouri River on the Fort Berthold, Cheyenne River, Standing Rock, Crow Creek, and Lower Brule Indian reservations. The Garrison, Oahe, and Fort Randall dams created a reservoir that eliminated 90 percent of timber and 75 percent of wildlife on the ...
The CRIR is bordered on the north by the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, on the west by Meade and Perkins Counties; on the south by the Cheyenne River; and on the east by the Missouri River in Lake Oahe. Much of the land inside the boundaries is privately owned.
Fort Yates is located on the western bank of Lake Oahe. According to the United States Census Bureau , the hamlet has a total area of 0.06 square miles (0.16 km 2 ), all land. [ 7 ] Fort Yates has a semiarid climate ( Köppen BSk ), with hot summers, cold and very dry winters (though sometimes moderated by chinook winds) and substantial diurnal ...
The Oahe Dam (/ oʊ ˈ ɑː h iː /) 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.
Near the town of Cherry Creek, it is joined by Cherry Creek and flows into Missouri at Lake Oahe, approximately 32 mi (50 km) NNW of Pierre, South Dakota, with the lower 35 mi (56 km) of the river forming an arm of Lake Oahe. The Belle Fourche River is the largest tributary of the Cheyenne.
Nov. 12—GETTYSBURG — Less than three weeks after a North Dakota angler reeled in a state record-size walleye on Lake Oahe, a South Dakota fisherman appears to have broken the record with a 17 ...
It flows east, through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and joins the Missouri in Lake Oahe, approximately 2 mi (3 km) northwest of Mobridge. 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.