LIST OF RESERVOIRS AND DAMS IN THE UNITED STATES

There are an estimated 75,000 dams in the United States, blocking 600,000 miles (960,000 km) of river or about 17% of rivers in the nation [1]. The following is a partial list of 'reservoirs and dams in the United States':
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Contents

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Lakes

Locks and Dams

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Washington, D.C.

See also

Alabama

''See List of Alabama dams and reservoirs''

Alaska

★ Blue Lake (Alaska)

★ Green Lake (Alaska)

Arizona

★ Davis Dam

★ Glen Canyon Dam — Lake Powell

★ Hoover Dam — Lake Mead

★ Imperial Dam

★ Laguna Diversion Dam

★ Mission Tailings

★ Morelos Dam

★ New Cornelia Tailings, largest US dam by volume

★ New Waddell Dam

★ Palo Verde Diversion Dam

★ Parker Dam

★ Several dams are part of the Salt River Project

★ Stewart Mountain Dam

★ Theodore Roosevelt Dam - Salt River Project

Arkansas

see ''List of Arkansas dams and reservoirs''

California

see ''List of reservoirs and dams in California''

Colorado

★ Aurora Reservoir

★ Blue Mesa Dam — Blue Mesa Reservoir

★ Chatfield Reservoir

★ Cherry Creek Reservoir

★ Gross Dam — Gross Reservoir

★ Horsetooth Dam — Horsetooth Reservoir, built as part of the Colorado Big Thompson project

★ Morrow Point Dam — Morrow Point Reservoir

★ Mount Elbert Forebay Dam

★ Quincy Reservoir

★ Ridgway Dam — Ridgway Reservoir, built as part of the Dallas Creek Project

★ Silver Jack Dam — Silver Jack Reservoir, part of the Bostwick Park Project

★ Vallecito Reservoir

Connecticut

★ Saville Dam — Barkhamsted Reservoir

★ Leesville Dam — Salmon River

Florida

★ Jim Woodruff Dam — Lake Seminole

★ Talquin Dam — Lake Talquin

Georgia

:''See also List of dams and reservoirs of the Tennessee River''

★ Allatoona Dam — Lake Allatoona

★ Bartlett's Ferry Dam — Lake Harding

★ Buford Dam — Lake Lanier

★ Carters Dam — Carter's Lake

★ Clark Hill Dam — Lake Strom Thurmond

★ Goat Rock Dam — Goat Rock Lake

★ Hartwell Dam — Lake Hartwell

★ Hickory log creek dam — Hickory log creek reservoir (under construction till Oct 2007)

★ Jim Woodruff Dam — Lake Seminole; on Apalachicola River; built by USACE

★ Kelly Barnes Dam — Toccoa Falls, Georgia failed 1977 killing 39 people.

★ Lake Blackshear Dam — Lake Blackshear

★ Morgan Falls Dam — Bull Sluice Lake

★ Oliver Dam — Lake Oliver

★ Sinclair Dam — Lake Sinclair

★ Wallace Dam — Lake Oconee

★ Walter F. George Lake — On the Chattahoochee River; built by USACE

★ West Point Dam — West Point Lake

Idaho

★ Albeni Falls Dam, Pend Oreille River

★ American Falls Dam, American Falls Reservoir, upper Snake

★ Anderson Ranch Dam, south fork Boise River

★ Arrow Rock Dam — the highest dam completed in any part of the world in 1915

★ Blackfoot Reservoir

★ Bliss Dam, middle Snake

★ Brownlee Dam, middle Snake

★ C.J. Strike Dam, C. J. Stirke Reservoir, middle Snake

★ Cabinet Gorge Dam, Pend Oreille River

★ Cascade Dam

★ Dworshak Dam — third highest dam in the United States

★ Hells Canyon Dam, middle Snake

★ Island Park Reservoir

★ Lucky Peak Dam, Lucky Peak Reservoir, Boise River

★ Oxbow Dam, middle Snake

★ Palisades Dam, Palisades Reservoir, upper Snake

★ Ririe Reservoir

★ Swan Falls Dam

★ Teton Dam

Illinois

★ Kaskaskia Lock and Dam

★ Lock and Dam #27

★ McHenry Dam

★ Melvin Price Locks and Dam, Alton

Indiana

★ Lake Lemon

★ Lake Monroe

Iowa

★ Coralville Reservoir

★ Dan Maffitt Reservoir

Kansas

''See Lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Kansas''

Kentucky

★ Lake Barkley

★ Barren River Lake

★ Buckhorn Lake

★ Cave Run Lake

★ Dewey Lake

★ Fishtrap Lake

★ Grayson Lake

★ Kentucky Dam

★ Laurel River Lake

★ McAlpine Locks and Dam — Ohio River

★ Paintsville Lake

★ Wolf Creek Dam — Lake Cumberland; on the Cumberland River; built by USACE

★ Yatesville Lake

Louisiana

★ Toledo Bend Reservoir

Maine

★ Sebago Lake

Maryland

★ Bloede Dam

★ Conowingo Dam

★ Deep Creek Lake

★ Jennings Randolph Lake

★ Liberty Reservoir

★ Loch Raven Reservoir

★ Prettyboy Reservoir

★ Rocky Gorge

★ Triadelphia Reservoir; Brighton Dam

★ Youghiogheny River Reservoir

Massachusetts

★ Assawompset Pond Dam — Nemasket River

★ Barstows Pond Dam — Cotley River

★ Buffumville Hollow Dam — Little River

★ Cleveland Pond Dam — Beaver Brook

★ Dam 1 above Harodite factory — concrete and granite blocks — Three Mile River

★ Dam 2 above Harodite factory — concrete — Three Mile River

★ Dam at 60 Winnetuxet Road — Winnetuxet River

★ Dam at Draka Factory — Three Mile River

★ Dam at Furnace Street — Stump Brook

★ Dam at Robbins Pond/Bog Reservoir Connection — Stump Brook

★ Dam at Route 106 — Satucket River

★ Fall Brook Route 28 Dam — Fall Brook

★ First Unnamed Dam — Segreganset River

★ Forge Pond Dam — Assonet River

★ Forge Pond Dam — Meadow Brook

★ Great Quittacas Pond Dam — Nemasket River

★ Happy Hollow Farm Dam — Fall Brook

★ High Street Dam — Town River

★ Hunts Pond Dam (Mill Street Dam) — Beaver Brook

★ Johnson Pond Dam — Forge River

★ Hewitt Pond Dam — Forge River

★ King's Pond Dam — Pine Swamp Brook

★ Knightville Dam — Westfield River

★ Lake Rico Dam — Furnace Brook

★ Monument Dam — Assonet River

★ Morey's Bridge Dam — Mill River

★ Muddy Cove Brook (Obstruction 1) — gate under railroad tracks just below Route 138 — Muddy Cove Brook

★ Muddy Cove Brook (Obstruction 2) — dam on Zeneca Inc. Property — Muddy Cove Brook

★ Muddy Cove Pond Dam — Muddy Cove Brook

★ Oliver Mills Dam — Nemasket River

★ Orchard Street Dam — Dam Lot Brook

★ Outlet for Bleachery Reservoir (Eastern) — Rattlesnake Brook

★ Outlet for Bleachery Reservoir (Western) — Rattlesnake Brook

★ Plymouth Street Dam — Taunton River

★ Richmond Pond Dam — Richmond Pond

★ Segreganset River Dam — Segreganset River

★ Stump Brook Dam — Stump Brook

★ Taunton State Hospital Dam — Mill River

★ Tisdale Dam — Assonet River

★ Tracy Pond Dam — Forge River

★ Unnamed dam above Berkley Street — Tributary above Berkley Street in Taunton (MA)

★ Unnamed dam at Raynham Department of Parks & Recreation Office — Forge River

★ Wachusett Dam — Wachusett Reservoir

★ War Memorial Park Dam — Town River

★ Wareham Street Dam — Nemasket River

★ West Brittania Dam — Mill River

★ Whittenton Street Dam — Mill River

★ Willow Avenue Dam — Meadow Brook

★ Winnetuxet Road Dam — Winnetuxet River

★ Winsor Dam — Quabbin Reservoir

Michigan

★ Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant, a reservoir used to level electrical production by pumped storage hydroelectricity

Minnesota

★ Blanchard Dam

★ Coon Rapids Dam

★ Lake_Zumbro_Hydroelectric_Generating_Plant

★ Little Falls Dam

★ Meeker Island Lock and Dam

★ Pokegama Dam, Grand Rapids

★ Upper and lower St. Anthony Falls Dams

★ Sartell Dam

★ St. Cloud Dam

★ Rapidan Dam

Mississippi

:''See also Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway''

★ Aberdeen Lock and Dam - Aberdeen Lake

★ Jamie Whitten Lock and Dam

★ John C. Stennis Lock and Dam - Columbus Lake

★ Ross Barnett Reservoir and Spillway

Missouri

★ Bagnell Dam, Lake of the Ozarks

★ Bull Shoals Lake

★ Clarence Cannon Dam

★ Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir

★ Lake Taneycomo

★ Lock and Dam #24, Clarksville

★ Lock and Dam #25, Winfield

★ Stockton Dam

★ Table Rock Lake

Montana

★ Fort Peck Dam

★ Hungry Horse Dam

★ Kerr Dam

★ Libby Dam

★ Noxon Rapids Dam

Nebraska

★ Gavins Point Dam (located in NE and SD)

Nevada

★ Davis Dam

★ Hoover Dam — Lake Mead

★ Lahontan Dam

New Hampshire

★ Arlington Mill Reservoir

★ Ayers Island Reservoir

★ Bellamy Reservoir

★ Blackwater Reservoir (New Hampshire)

★ Comerford Reservoir

★ Deering Reservoir

★ Franklin Falls Reservoir

★ Franklin Pierce Lake

★ Hopkinton-Everett Reservoir

★ Lake Francis

★ MacDowell Reservoir

★ McIndoes Reservoir

★ Moore Reservoir

★ Pontook Reservoir

★ Surry Mountain Lake

★ Weare Reservoir

New Jersey

★ Lake Tappan

★ Oradell Reservoir

★ Round Valley Reservoir

★ Wanaque Reservoir

★ Woodcliff Lake Reservoir

New Mexico

★ Cochiti Dam

★ Elephant Butte Dike

New York

''See List of reservoirs and dams in New York''

North Carolina

:''See also List of dams and reservoirs of the Tennessee River''

★ Cheoah Dam, built in 1919 and owned by Alcoa

★ Cowan's Ford Dam and Lake Norman Duke Power Hydroelectric Lake

★ Falls Lake

★ Fontana Dam, finished in 1944 and owned by TVA

★ Randleman Dam, completed in 2003

★ High Rock Lake — On the Yadkin River; built in 1927 by USACE and operated today by Alcoa

★ B. Everett Jordan Lake — On the Haw River; built by USACE

★ Lake Lure Duke Power Hydroelectric Lake

★ Mountain Island Dam and Mountain Island Lake Duke Power Hydroelectric Lake

★ Lake Nottely — On the Nottely River; built 1941-1942; operated by the TVA

★ Santeetlah Dam, built in 1928 and owned by Alcoa

★ Lake Wylie Duke Power Hydroelectric Lake

North Dakota

★ Bald Hill Dam — Bald Hill Lake

★ Bowman-Haley Dam — Bowman-Haley Reservoir

★ Darling Dam — Lake Darling

★ Dickinson Dam — Dickinson Reservoir

★ Garrison Dam — Lake Sakakawea

★ Heart Butte Dam — Lake Tschida

★ Jamestown Dam — Jamestown Reservoir

Ohio

★ Acton Lake

★ Alum Creek Lake

★ Atwood Lake

★ Beach City Lake

★ Bolivar Dam

★ Caesar Creek Lake

★ Charles Mill Lake

★ Clarence J. Brown Reservoir

★ Clearfork Reservoir

★ Clendening Lake

★ Cowan Lake

★ Deer Creek Lake

★ Delaware Lake

★ Dillon Lake

★ Dover Dam

★ Englewood Dam

★ Germantown Dam

★ Grand Lake St. Marys — Reservoir for the now defunct Miami and Erie Canal

★ Griggs Dam

★ Hoover Dam

★ Huffman Dam

★ Lake Milton

★ Leesville Lake

★ Lockington Dam

★ Michael J. Kirwan Reservoir

★ Mohawk Dam

★ Mohicanville Dam

★ North Branch of Kokosing River Lake

★ O'Shaughnessy Dam

★ Paint Creek Lake

★ Piedmont Lake

★ Pleasant Hill Lake

★ Providence Dam

★ Salt Fork Reservoir

★ Senecaville Lake

★ Tappan Lake

★ Taylorsville Dam

★ Tom Jenkins Dam

★ William Harsha Lake

★ Wills Creek Lake

Oregon

★ Antelope Reservoir — near Jordan Valley

★ Applegate Lake — Applegate River

★ Blue River Reservoir — Blue River, a tributary of the McKenzie River

★ Brownlee Dam — Snake River

★ Bull Run Reservoir — Sandy River

★ Chickahominy Reservoir — near Riley

★ Cooper Creek Reservoir — Umpqua River

★ Cougar Reservoir & Cougar Dam — McKenzie River

★ Crane Prairie Reservoir - Deschutes River

★ Detroit Lake & Detroit Dam — Breitenbush and Santiam rivers

★ Dexter Lake aka Dexter Reservoir & Dexter Dam — Willamette River

★ Dorena Reservoir & Cottage Grove Dam — Willamette River

★ Emigrant Reservoir aka Emigrant Lake & Emigrant Dam — Rogue River

★ Fern Ridge Reservoir aka Fern Ridge Lake — Long Tom River

★ Foster Reservoir & Foster Dam — South Santiam River

★ Gatehouse, Portland City Reservoir No. 2

★ Green Peter Reservoir — Middle Santiam River

★ Hells Canyon Reservoir & Hells Canyon Dam — Snake River

★ Henry Hagg Lake & Scoggins Dam — Tualatin River

★ Hills Creek Reservoir & Hills Creek Dam — Middle Fork Willamette River

★ Lake Billy Chinook & Round Butte Dam — Crooked, Deschutes, and Metolius rivers

★ Lake Bonneville & Bonneville Dam — Columbia River

★ Lake Celilo & The Dalles Dam — Columbia River

★ Lake Umatilla & John Day Dam — Columbia River

★ Lake Wallula & McNary Dam — Columbia River

★ Lookout Point Reservoir — Middle Fork Willamette River

★ Lost Creek Lake & William L. Jess Dam — Rogue River

★ McGuire Reservoir — Nestucca River

★ North Fork Reservoir — Clackamas River

★ Owyhee Reservoir — Owyhee River

★ Oxbow Dam — Snake River

★ Phillips Reservoir — Powder River

★ Prineville Reservoir & Bowman Dam aka Prineville Dam — Crooked River

★ Silverton Reservoir — Silver Creek

★ Thief Valley Reservoir — Powder River

★ Warm Springs Reservoir — Malheur River

★ Wickiup Reservoir - Deschutes River

Pennsylvania

see ''List of dams and reservoirs of the Susquehanna River''

★ Austin Dam

★ Curwensville Dam — Curwensville Lake

★ Howard Dam

★ Kinzua Dam — Allegheny Reservoir

★ South Fork Dam — which failed and caused the Johnstown Flood

★ Youghiogheny Dam — Youghiogheny River Lake

Rhode Island

★ Scituate Reservoir

South Carolina

★ Saluda Dam — Lake Murray

South Dakota

★ Big Bend Dam — Sharpe Lake, Fort Thompson

★ Fort Randall Dam — Lake Francis Case, Pickstown

★ Gavins Point Dam — Lewis and Clark Lake, Yankton (located in NE and SD)

★ Oahe Dam — Lake Oahe

Tennessee

:''See also List of dams and reservoirs of the Tennessee River''

★ Calderwood Dam, built in 1930 and owned by Alcoa

★ Center Hill Dam

★ Chickamauga Dam — Chickamauga Lake; on the Tennessee River; built 1940 by the TVA

★ Chilhowee Dam, built in 1957 and owned by Alcoa

★ Dale Hollow Reservoir

★ Douglas Dam — On the French Broad River; built by the TVA

★ Fort Loudoun Dam, built in 1943 and owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority

★ Great Falls Dam, only TVA dam outside the Tennessee River watershed.

★ Hales's Bar Dam Tennessee Valley Authority dam mostly demolished in 1968.

★ J. Percy Priest Dam

★ Norris Dam

★ Old Hickory Lock and Dam

★ Pickwick Landing Dam — Pickwick Lake; on the Tennessee River; owned by TVA

★ Tellico Dam — Tellico Reservoir; on the Little Tennessee River; finished in 1979 by the TVA

★ Watauga Lake — built in 1948 by the TVA

★ Watts Bar Dam, built in 1942 and owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority

Texas

★ Buchanan Dam

★ De Cordova Bend Dam on Lake Granbury and the Brazos River

★ Inks Dam

★ Lake Texoma

★ Longhorn Dam

★ Mansfield Dam

★ Medina Dam, built in 1912 in Mico, Texas, and is owned and operated by the Bandera-Medina-Atascosa Water Conservation District in Natalia, Texas.

★ Morris Sheppard Dam Possum Kingdom Lake.

★ Starcke Dam

★ Tom Miller Dam

★ Wirtz Dam

★ Sam Rayburn Dam

★ Wright Patman Dam, built in 1948, is one of the world's largest earthen dams at 18,500 feet in length (approximately 3 ½ miles).

Utah

★ Causey

★ Cutler

★ Deer Creek

★ East Canyon

★ Echo

★ Enterprise

★ Flaming Gorge

★ Goshen

★ Grantsville

★ Gunlock

★ Hyrum

★ Jordanelle

★ Kolob

★ Lake Powell

★ Little Dell

★ Lost Creek

★ Mantua

★ Minersville

★ Mountain Dell, built between 1917 and 1925

★ Pineview

★ Porcupine

★ Quail Creek

★ Rockport

★ Sand Wash

★ Sand Hollow

★ Settlement Canyon

★ Strawberry

★ Starvation Reservoir

Vermont

★ Comerford Reservoir

★ Moore Reservoir

Virginia

★ John H. Kerr Lake — On the Roanoke River; built by USACE; reservoir covers parts of Virginia/North Carolina border

★ Philpott Lakeand Smith montain Lake near Roanoke

Washington

★ Blue Gulch Reservoir Dam

★ Bonneville Dam – Lake Bonneville (between Washington and Oregon)

★ Boundary Dam – Pend Oreille River

★ Box Canyon Dam – Pend Oreille River

★ Chief Joseph Dam – Rufus Woods Lake

★ Culmback Dam – Spada Lake, Washington, Jackson Hydro Project

★ Diablo Dam – Skagit River, Seattle City Light

★ Elwha Dam – Lake Aldwell

★ Glines Canyon Dam – Lake Mills

★ Gorge Dam – Skagit River, Seattle City Light

★ Grand Coulee Dam, largest hydroelectricity plant in US – Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake

★ Ice Harbor Lock and Dam, Lake Sacajawea, lower Snake River

★ John Day Dam – Lake Umatilla (between Washington and Oregon)

★ Little Goose Lock and Dam, Lake Bryan, lower Snake River

★ Lower Granite Lock and Dam, Lower Granite Lake, lower Snake River

★ Lower Monumental Lock and Dam, Lake Herbert G. West, lower Snake River

★ McNary Dam – Lake Wallula (between Washington and Oregon)

★ Mossyrock Dam – Riffe Lake

★ Priest Rapids Dam – Priest Rapids Lake

★ Rock Island Dam (unnamed)

★ Rocky Reach Dam – Lake Entiat

★ Ross Dam and Ross Lake – Skagit River, Seattle City Light

★ Swift Dam – Swift Reservoir

★ The Dalles Dam – Lake Celilo (between Washington and Oregon)

★ Wanapum Dam – Lake Wanapum

★ Wells Dam – Lake Pateros

★ Wynoochee Dam – Wynoochee Lake, on the southern side of the Olympic Peninsula

West Virginia

Lakes

★ Beech Fork Lake

★ Bluestone Lake — On the New River; built by USACE

★ Burnsville Lake — On the Little Kanawha River

★ East Lynn Lake

★ Jennings Randolph Lake — On the North Branch Potomac River, lake is in West Virginia and Maryland

★ R.D. Bailey Lake — On the Guyandotte River

★ Kopperston Tailings

★ Stonewall Jackson Lake — On the West Fork River

★ Summersville Lake — On the Gauley River, formed by Summersville Dam

★ Sutton Lake — On the Elk River

★ Tygart River Lake — On the Tygart Valley River

Locks and Dams

★ Belleville Locks and Dam — On the Ohio River, dam is in West Virginia and Ohio

★ Hannibal Locks and Dam — On the Ohio River, dam is in West Virginia and Ohio

★ Hildebrand Lock and Dam — On the Monongahela River

★ London Locks and Dam — On the Kanawha River

★ Marmet Locks and Dam — On the Kanawha River

★ Morgantown Lock and Dam — On the Monongahela River

★ New Cumberland Locks and Dam — On the Ohio River, dam is in West Virginia and Ohio

★ Opekiska Lock and Dam — On the Monongahela River

★ Racine Locks and Dam — On the Ohio River, dam is in West Virginia and Ohio

★ Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam — On the Ohio River, dam is in West Virginia and Ohio, formerly known as Gallipolis Locks and Dam

★ Wells Lock and Dam — On the Little Kanawha River, lock is closed

★ Willow Island Locks and Dam — On the Ohio River, dam is in West Virginia and Ohio

★ Winfield Locks and Dam — On the Kanawha River

Wisconsin

★ Alexander Dam Hydro

★ Biron Dam Hydro

★ Caldron Falls Hydro

★ Castle Rock Hydro

★ Chippewa Falls Hydro

★ Cornell Hydro

★ Dells Hydro — Dells Pond

★ Grandfather Falls Hydro

★ Grandmother Falls Hydro

★ High Falls Reservoir

★ Holcombe Hydro

★ Jim Falls Hydro — Old Abe Lake

★ Menomonee Hydro

★ Kilbourn Dam Hydro

★ Petenwell Hydro

★ Potato Rapids Hydro

★ Prairie du Sac Hydro

★ Sandstone Rapids Hydro

★ Stevens Point Hydro

★ Wausau Hydro

★ Wissota Hydro — Lake Wissota

★ Wisconsin Dells Hydro

★ Wisconsin Rapids Hydro

Wyoming

★ Shoshone Dam

★ Pathfinder Dam — Pathfinder Reservoir

Washington, D.C.

★ Dalecarlia Reservoir

See also

★ List of reservoirs and dams

★ List of waterways

★ List of lakes in the United States

★ List of canals in the United States

★ List of rivers in the United States

★ Drought

★ Flood

★ Transvasement