Red Willow Dam
Dam in Frontier County, Nebraska
40°21′31″N 100°40′02″W / 40.35863°N 100.66725°W / 40.35863; -100.66725Red Willow Dam (National ID # NE01076) is a dam in Frontier County, Nebraska, about ten miles northwest of McCook.
The earthen dam was constructed from 1960 to 1962 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 126 feet (38 m).[2] It impounds Willow Creek for flood control, part of the Frenchman-Cambridge Division of the Bureau's extensive Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program. The dam is owned and operated by the Bureau.
The reservoir it creates, Hugh Butler Lake, has a water surface of 1,629 acres (659 ha), 4,461 acres (1,805 ha) of land, about 35 miles (56 km) of shoreline, and a maximum water capacity of 86,630 acre-feet (106,860,000 m3).[3] Recreation includes fishing (for walleye, crappie, white bass, channel catfish, and wipers, etc.), hunting, boating, camping and hiking.[4] The shore borders Nebraska's Red Willow Reservoir State Recreation Area.
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Red Willow Dam
- ^ "Dam details - Red Willow Dam - Bureau of Reclamation". Archived from the original on 2012-09-25. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
- ^ "Hugh Butler Lake (Red Willow Reservoir State Recreation Area), Nebraska".
- ^ "Project details - Frenchman-Cambridge Division - Bureau of Reclamation". Archived from the original on 2012-09-25. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
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