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The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in response to severe flooding between 1915 and 1927. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the construction of the dam as well as six others on the White River and its tributaries in the Flood Control Act of 1938. Construction started in June 1947 and the dam was completed in July ...
Bull Shoals Dam Aerial photo of Bull Shoals Dam. Bull Shoals Dam was created to impound the White River by one of the largest concrete dams in the United States and was the fifth largest dam in the world at its inception. [1] Work on the dam began in 1947, was completed in 1951 and dedicated by President Harry S. Truman in 1952.
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
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 ]
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 ...
The county contains five protected areas, including parts of the Buffalo National River, Ozark National Forest, Bull Shoals-White River State Park, and two Wildlife Management Areas. The natural environment of nearby Norfork and Bull Shoals lakes and the surrounding countryside has attracted tourists from around the country for many years. [4]
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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