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Bull Shoals Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the White River in northern Arkansas in the United States. The dam lies on the border of Marion and Baxter Counties, and forms Bull Shoals Lake, which extends well northwest into Missouri. Its main purposes are hydroelectricity production and flood control.
The dam is designed for a maximum elevation of 695 ft (212 m) (top of the flood pool). Bull Shoals Lake covers 45,000 acres (180 km 2) with a 700-mile (1,100 km) shoreline at powerpool to more than 70,000 acres (280 km 2) with a 1,000 miles (1,600 km) shoreline at 690 ft (210 m). The bottom of the lake consists of bedrock with very limited ...
Beaver Lake, Bull Shoals Lake, and Table Rock Lake are man-made lakes or reservoirs created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under the authority of the Flood Control Act of 1938. [11] Bull Shoals Dam near Mountain Home, Arkansas was constructed from 1947 to 1951 at a cost of $86 million [12] and is the 5th largest concrete dam in the United ...
Bull Shoals Dam is the threshold into the town from the southeast. Bull Shoals Dam and the town of Bull Shoals developed together. The developers bought several tracts of the former Newton Flat settlement when they learned that the government planned to build a flood-control and power-generating concrete dam at the site.
Bull Shoals-White River State Park is a 732-acre (296 ha) Arkansas state park in Baxter and Marion Counties, Arkansas in the United States. Containing one of the nation's best trout-fishing streams, the park entered the system in 1955 after the United States Army Corps of Engineers built Bull Shoals Dam on the White River . [ 1 ]
Bull Shoals may refer to: Bull Shoals Dam, a concrete gravity dam on the White River in northern Arkansas; Bull Shoals Lake, an artificial lake formed by the Bull Shoals Dam; Bull Shoals, Arkansas, a city near the dam; Bull Shoals-White River State Park, an Arkansas state park below the dam
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).
Bull Shoals Dam impounds the White River, creating Bull Shoals Lake. It is also the location of Bull Shoals-White River State Park (park visitor center in bottom left corner). Reservoirs