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Guernsey State Park is a public recreation area surrounding the Guernsey Reservoir, an impoundment of the North Platte River, one mile northwest of the town of Guernsey in Platte County, Wyoming. The state park has campgrounds, boat ramps and hiking trails as well as exceptional examples of structures created by the Civilian Conservation Corps ...
Remnants of the charcoal-making industry in southwestern Wyoming Platte River Crossing: Carbon County: 7 2.8: Point at which the Overland Trail crossed the North Platte River: Point of Rocks Stage Station: Sweetwater County: 1 0.40: Meeting point of the Overland Trail and the Union Pacific Railroad: Quebec-One Missile Alert Facility: Laramie ...
Guernsey is located at (42.267251, −104.743187 [7]According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.04 square miles (2.69 km 2), of which 1.02 square miles (2.64 km 2) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2) is water.
Glendo State Park is a public recreation area surrounding Glendo Reservoir on the North Platte River in Platte and Converse counties in Wyoming in the United States. [3] The state park is located near the town of Glendo, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of the city of Douglas. It is managed by the Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wyoming. 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 ).
There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos.
The following is a list of the fourteen reservoirs, in the United States state of Wyoming, that contain at least 40,000 acre-feet (49 million cubic meters) when at full capacity. In addition to in-stream reservoirs, the list includes enhanced natural lakes , notably Jackson Lake .
The dam creates Guernsey Reservoir, the last of the 5 major reservoirs on the North Platte River in Wyoming. The dam contains a hydroelectric plant capable of 6.4 megawatts of electricity. [ 1 ] The total capacity of the reservoir is 71,040 acre-feet (87,630,000 m 3 ) of water which is used mainly for irrigation.