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The "Little" and "Great" "Ne-ma-haw" Rivers are seen at the west-central edge of the map. The Nemaha River basin includes the areas of the U.S. state of Nebraska below the Platte River basin that drain directly into the Missouri River. The major streams of the drainage include Weeping Water Creek, Muddy Creek, Little Nemaha River, and Big ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Nebraska. 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 ).
The Rainwater Basin wetland region is a 4,200 sq mi (11,000 km 2) loess plain located south of the Platte River in south-central Nebraska. [1] It lies principally in Adams, Butler, Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Kearney, Phelps, Polk, Saline, Seward, and York counties and extends into adjacent areas of southeastern Hall, northern Franklin, northern Nuckolls, western Saline, northern Thayer and ...
Gavins Point Dam is a 1.9-mile-long (3 km) embankment rolled-earth and chalk-fill dam which spans the Missouri River and impounds Lewis and Clark Lake.The dam joins Cedar County, Nebraska with Yankton County, South Dakota a distance of 811.1 river miles (1,305 km) upstream of St. Louis, Missouri, where the river joins the Mississippi River.
Largest lake entirely within the State of Nebraska. Lake Minatare: 2,158 Scotts Bluff NE of Scotts Bluff Ogallala 650 5 mph Keith near Ogallala Maskenthine 98 5 mph Stanton North of Stanton Medicine Creek 1,850 Frontier near Cambridge Merritt Reservoir: 2,900 Cherry: near Valentine Midway Canyon Reservoir: 607 Dawson: south of Cozad Mud Lake ...
The Salt Valley Lakes is a system of more than twenty lakes in Lancaster County, Nebraska. Many of the lakes are state recreation areas or wildlife areas. All of the lakes are within twenty-five miles of Lincoln, Nebraska. [1] "These areas around Lincoln cover 15,039 total acres, with 4,438 acres of water." [2]
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Entirely located within the Sandhills of north-central Nebraska, the Snake River rises near the eastern edge of Sheridan County. It flows eastward into Cherry County and passes along the southern edge of Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest. On the southeast edge of the national forest, the river is dammed to form Merritt Reservoir. At this point ...