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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-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 ]
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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).
Emergency officials warned in a 6 p.m. ET Facebook post that Lake Lure Dam water levels are now receding. Emergency personnel have rescued more than 25 people through "swift water rescue."
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: Blakely Mountain Dam: 75 1953 Hot Springs, Arkansas: Town Bluff Dam ...
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