Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Lake Oahe (/ oʊ ˈ w ɑː. h iː /) is a large reservoir behind the Oahe Dam on the Missouri River; it begins in central South Dakota and continues north into North Dakota in the United States. The lake has an area of 370,000 acres (1,500 km 2 ) and a maximum depth of 205 ft (62 m). [ 1 ]
Great Salt Lake: Utah: 950 sq mi 2,460 km 2: natural salt [4] 9 Lake Oahe: North Dakota–South Dakota: 685 sq mi 1,774 km 2: man-made [5] 10 Lake Okeechobee: Florida: 662 sq mi 1,715 km 2: natural [6] 11 Lake Pontchartrain: Louisiana: 631 sq mi 1,634 km 2: natural brackish [7] 12 Lake Sakakawea: North Dakota: 520 sq mi 1,347 km 2: man-made 13 ...
Lake Oahe: North Dakota - South ... highest in elevation of large lakes 25: Lake Franklin D. Roosevelt: ... Devils Lake has experienced severe flooding and has risen ...
The Oahe Dam (/ oʊ ˈ ɑː h iː /) is a large earthen dam on the Missouri River, just north of Pierre, South Dakota, United States.Begun in 1948 and opened in 1962, the dam creates Lake Oahe, the fourth-largest man-made reservoir in the United States.
Map showing the Missouri River basin Garrison Dam, which forms Lake Sakakawea, the largest reservoir on the Missouri River. This is a list of dams in the watershed of the Missouri River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, in the United States.
The lower 15 mi (24 km) of the river form an arm of the Lake Oahe reservoir. It is the northernmost of South Dakota's major West River streams: the Grand, Moreau , Cheyenne , Bad , and White . Draining about 5,200 square miles (13,000 km 2 ) of the northern plateaus of the state, the Grand receives most of its water from snowmelt.
Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; ... • elevation: 2,780 ft (850 m) Mouth • location. Confluence with Missouri River in Lake Oahe • coordinates
The Garrison, Oahe, and Fort Randall dams created a reservoir that eliminated 90 percent of timber and 75 percent of wildlife on the reservations. [ 9 ] According to Native American historian Vine Deloria Jr. , the "Pick–Sloan plan was, without doubt, the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States."