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Blakely Mountain Dam was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers from 1948 to 1953 for hydroelectric power, recreation, water supply and wildlife conservation. [1] The dam is 231 feet (70 m) tall, 1,100 feet (340 m) long at the crest, and is capable of 75 megawatts. [2] The lake is located near Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Arkansas.. 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).
Location Nameplate capacity Generating units 2019 net generation Water source Operator Opened Beaver Lake Dam: Carroll County: 112 2 261,746 [22] White River: Southwestern Power Administration: 1965 [23] Blakely Mountain: Garland/Montgomery: 75 2 231,668 [24] Ouachita River: Southwestern Power Administration: 1956 [23] Bull Shoals: Baxter ...
Buckville is an unincorporated community in Garland County, Arkansas, United States.It is located on hillsides within the Ouachita National Forest.Originally, Buckville was located further down in the valley nearer the Ouachita River; however, with the construction of Blakely Mountain Dam and subsequent filling of Lake Ouachita, the old village was flooded out and a new place was built higher ...
Bear, formerly also called Bear City, is an unincorporated community in Garland County, Arkansas, United States. [1] It is close to the shore of Lake Ouachita, which was formed by the construction of the Blakely Mountain Dam across the Ouachita River.
The Ouachita River (/ ˈ w ɑː ʃ ɪ t ɑː / WAH-shi-taw) is a 605-mile-long (974 km) [2] river that runs south and east through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana, joining the Tensas River to form the Black River near Jonesville, Louisiana.
Mountain Pine is a city in Garland County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the Hot Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 770 at the 2010 United States Census. [3] It is located immediately southeast of Lake Ouachita below the Blakely Mountain Dam. The city consists of five defined neighborhoods, Pinewood (north ...
Location Denison Dam: 80 1943 Bryan County, OK / Grayson County, TX: Norfork Dam: 80.4 1944 Mountain Home, Arkansas: Fort Gibson Dam: 48 1949 Fort Gibson, Oklahoma: Bull Shoals Dam: 380 1951 Bull Shoals, Arkansas: Narrows Dam: 25.5 1951 Murfreesboro, Arkansas: Whitney Dam: 43 [5] 1951 Whitney, Texas: Tenkiller Ferry Dam: 34 1952 Gore, Oklahoma ...