McAlpine Locks and Dam

The McAlpine Locks and Dam are a set of locks and a hydroelectric dam at the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky. They are located at mile point 606.8, and control a 72.9-mile-long navigation pool.

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Type: Dam
Description: dam in Louisville, Kentucky
Also known as: “McAlpine Dam”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ohio Falls Station and Portland Museum.

Ohio Falls Station

Electrical generator

Ohio Falls Station is a hydroelectric power station owned by Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities which is located three miles west of Downtown Louisville, Kentucky.

Portland Museum

Museum

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The Portland Museum is a neighborhood history and art museum in Louisville, Kentucky. It details the history of the Portland neighborhood both as an independent town in the early 1800s and after Portland's amalgamation into Louisville after the construction of the Louisville and Portland Canal. Portland Museum is situated 1 mile south of McAlpine Locks and Dam.

Falls of the Ohio State Park

Park

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Falls of the Ohio State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is located on the banks of the Ohio River at Clarksville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clarksville and Portland.

Clarksville

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Clarksville is a city in Clark County in Southern Indiana, directly across the Ohio River from Louisville. It is the oldest town in the Indiana Territory with a population of 21,000. The city is served by an overlay complex of two area codes: 812 and 930.

Portland

Hamlet

Portland is a historic district, neighborhood and former independent town northwest of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It is situated along a bend of the Ohio River just below the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area, where the river curves to the north and then to the south, thus placing Portland at the northern tip of urban Louisville. Portland is situated 2 miles southwest of McAlpine Locks and Dam.

Shelby Place Historic District

Neighborhood

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Shelby Place Historic District is a registered historic district in New Albany, Indiana, one mile north of the Ohio River, across from Louisville, Kentucky. Shelby Place Historic District is situated 2 miles northwest of McAlpine Locks and Dam.

McAlpine Locks and Dam

Categories: gravity dam and lock
Location: Jefferson, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.28322° or 38° 16′ 60″ north

Longitude

-85.78059° or 85° 46′ 50″ west

Elevation

420 feet (128 metres)

Open location code

86CP76M9+7Q

GeoNames ID

4300165

Wikidata ID

Q3303589

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In Other Languages

From Bavarian to Ukrainian—“McAlpine Locks and Dam” goes by many names.

Bavarian: “McAlpine Locks and Dam”
Cebuano: “McAlpine Dam”
French: “barrage et écluses McAlpine”
French: “Barrage et écluses McAlpine”
German: “McAlpine Locks and Dam”
Ukrainian: “ГЕС McAlpine”

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