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Fifty Cents an Hour: The Builders and Boomtowns of the Fort Peck Dam, by Montana author Lois Lonnquist, published in 2006, is an overall history of the Fort Peck dam and spillway construction. Built by the Army Corps of Engineers, PWA Project #30 provided thousands of jobs during the Great Depression.
Fort Peck Lake, or Lake Fort Peck, is a major reservoir in Montana, formed by the Fort Peck Dam on the Missouri River. The lake lies in the eastern prairie region of Montana approximately 140 miles (230 km) east of Great Falls and 120 miles (190 km) north of Billings , reaching into portions of six counties.
Fort Peck had a post office from 1879 to 1881. A new town of Fort Peck, located approximately two miles north of the original, was built in 1934 to house Army Corps of Engineers employees involved in the construction of the Fort Peck Dam. Designed to be temporary, the government-owned town nevertheless included many features of a permanent town ...
In 1934, the War Department awarded the largest ever contract for sand and gravel to the Shiely- Becker County Sand And Gravel consortium as the start of the Fort Peck Dam project. [14] The Shiely company supplied almost all of the material for the concrete for the dam, employing thousands of workers throughout the Great Depression. [15]
Hauser Dam: MT: Hauser Lake: 80 24 98,000 0.121 19 Holter Dam: MT: Holter Lake: 124 38 243,000 0.300 48 Black Eagle Dam: MT: Long Pool 13 4 2,000 0.002 21 Rainbow Dam: MT: 29 9 1,000 0.001 36 Cochrane Dam: MT: 59 18 3,000 0.004 64 Ryan Dam: MT: 61 19 5,000 0.006 60 Morony Dam: MT: 59 18 3,000 0.004 48 Fort Peck Dam: MT: Fort Peck Lake: 250 76 ...
The Fort Randall Dam flooded 221,497 acres (89,637 ha) of Indigenous land and 220,478 acres (89,224 ha) were inundated by the Big Bend Dam. [8] In South Dakota, politicians and other proponents of the Pick-Sloan Program and dam construction had promised 1 million acres (4.0 × 10 ^ 3 km 2 ) of irrigation as “appropriate compensation” for ...
The smallest dam, Copco No. 2, was torn down by crews using heavy machinery. The other three dams are set to be dismantled next year, starting with a drawdown of the reservoirs in January.
The community at the Rocky Point ford continued through the homesteading years from 1900 to 1918, but faded away when the ferry ceased to function in the 1920s, and it finally disappeared in 1936 when the Army Corps of Engineers condemned and bought up land adjacent to the Missouri River that might possibly be affected by Fort Peck Dam, then ...