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The Coon Rapids Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Mississippi River located in Brooklyn Park and Coon Rapids, Minnesota. It is approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of downtown Minneapolis. Between 1914 and 1966, it provided hydroelectric power generation for northern Twin Cities suburbs. Since 1969, it has been used primarily for recreation.
St. Cloud Dam. St. Cloud, Minnesota. 45°32′52″N94°08′50″W / 45.54778°N 94.14722°W / 45.54778; -94.14722. Coon Rapids Dam. Brooklyn Park / Coon Rapids, Minnesota. 45°08′36″N93°18′43″W / 45.14333°N 93.31194°W / 45.14333; -93.31194. No locks, ends navigable portion of river. Upper Saint Anthony Falls Lock ...
GNIS feature ID. 2393628 [3] Website. coonrapidsmn.gov. Coon Rapids is a northern suburb of Minneapolis, and is the second-largest city by population in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. [6] The population was 63,599 at the 2020 census, [4] making it the fifteenth largest city in Minnesota and the seventh largest Twin Cities suburb.
19,400 sq mi (50,000 km 2) Ford Dam, officially known as Lock and Dam No. 1, is on the Upper Mississippi River and is located between Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota just north of the confluence of the Mississippi with the Minnesota River at Mississippi River mile 847.9, in Minneapolis. The powerhouse portion was previously owned by the ...
There are more than 1,250 dams in the state. Over 800 are public facilities and of these 430 are owned by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. [2] This list includes the most notable structures, namely all that generate hydroelectricity, [3] any operated by the Mississippi Valley Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers ...
General. List of weather records. Large-scale events that affected Minnesota. 2007 Midwest flooding. Mid-June 1992 Tornado Outbreak. 1968 Tracy tornado. 1991 Halloween blizzard. Great Storm of 1975. 1936 North American heat wave.
The Upper Mississippi River covers approximately half of the Mississippi River's length. About 850 miles (1,370 km) of the river is navigable from Minneapolis-St. Paul (specifically, the Coon Rapids Dam in the City of Coon Rapids, MN) to the Ohio River. The river sustains a large variety of aquatic life, including 127 species of fish and 30 ...
The Mississippi River[ b ] is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. [ c ][ 15 ][ 16 ] From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for 2,340 miles (3,766 km) [ 16 ] to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.