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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wisconsin.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
Bodies of water of Brown County, Wisconsin (2 C, 3 P) Bodies of water of Buffalo County, Wisconsin (2 C) Bodies of water of Burnett County, Wisconsin (1 C, 1 P)
Wisconsin counties (clickable map) The county is the primary political subdivision of Wisconsin. Every county has a county seat, often a populous or centrally located city or village, where the government offices for the county are located. Within each county are cities, villages and towns. As of 2016, Wisconsin had 72 counties. [1]
Not all waters have had these facts determined, and so are of uncertain status. All water subject to tides are included. Note that the "Navigable Waters of the United States" listed in 33 CFR 329 are different than those listed as "Waters of the United States" in 33 CFR 328, which is the Clean Water Rule. However, all Navigable Waters, plus ...
William Vilas (1840–1908), officer in the Civil War United States Postmaster General (1885–88) United States Secretary of the Interior (1888–89) and Senator from Wisconsin (1891–97) 23,885: 856.60 sq mi (2,219 km 2) Walworth County: 127: Elkhorn: 1836: Milwaukee County: Reuben Hyde Walworth (1788–1867), jurist from New York: 105,822: ...
The Yahara River (/ j ə ˈ h ær ə /) is a tributary of the Rock River in southern Wisconsin.It is about 62 miles (100 km) long [3] (including the distance across intervening lakes), and drains an area of 536 square miles (1,390 km 2). [4]
The Fox River is a river in eastern Wisconsin in the Great Lakes region of the United States. It is the principal tributary of the Green Bay, and via the bay, the largest tributary of Lake Michigan. The city of Green Bay, one of the first European settlements in the interior of North America, is on the river at its mouth on the Green Bay.
The word "Chippewa" is a rendering of "Ojibwe." The Ojibwe people controlled most of the upper Chippewa Valley and its tributaries until the Treaty of St. Peters in 1837. Of the pine forests in Wisconsin in the 1800s, the Chippewa River system held more than even the Wisconsin River. It is estimated that the Chippewa system drained 34% of ...