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Lock and Dam No. 19 is a lock and dam located on the Upper Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa. In 1978, the Keokuk Lock and Dam was listed in the National Register of Historic Places , #78001234. In 2004, the facility was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Lock and Dam No. 19 Historic District, #04000179 covering 1,605 acres ...
HAER No. IA-27, "Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 19, Keokuk, Lee County, IA", 79 photos, 17 data pages, 5 photo caption pages HAER No. IL-26, " Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 13, Fulton, Whiteside County, IL ", 14 photos, 16 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
Following the completion of the Keokuk-Hamilton Bridge in 1985, the US Route 136 traffic was rerouted there, and the upper deck of this bridge, on the Keokuk side, was converted to an observation deck to view the nearby lock and dam; this deck is no longer used for road traffic, but the lower deck is still used for rail traffic. The bridge was ...
Keokuk / ˈ k iː ə k ʌ k / is a city in and a county seat of Lee County, Iowa, United States. [5] It is Iowa's southernmost city. The population was 9,900 at the time of the 2020 census. [6] The city is named after the Sauk chief Keokuk, who is recognized with a statue in Rand Park.
US 136 was designated nationally in 1951. In the Keokuk area, it was overlaid upon US 61 from west of Alexandria, Missouri, over the Des Moines River into Iowa, and into downtown Keokuk. South of downtown, it replaced Iowa 161, which crossed the Mississippi River on the Keokuk Rail Bridge. [14]
This prompted the bloodless Honey War, with Iowa resisting the effort. The Supreme Court was to ultimately decide in State of Missouri v. State of Iowa, 48 U.S. 660 (1849), that Iowa's southern boundary was the foot of the rapids at modern day Keokuk (although accepting the Sullivan Line for the rest of the border from about 20 miles (32 km) west).
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Iowa. 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 ).
Meigs was an accomplished riverboat pilot. One of his six daughters, author Cornelia Meigs, wrote in the Keokuk Daily Gate newspaper, dated July 30, 1966: [3] "...It is an unrecorded part of my father’s work that he had the whole picture of the river channel so fully in his mind, with his almost day to day information as to what the mighty Mississippi was about that he felt himself able ...