Lake Hico Dam

Lake Hico Dam is a dam in Hinds, Mississippi. Lake Hico Dam is situated nearby to the aerodrome Hawkins Field.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lake Hico and Hawkins Field.

Lake Hico

Reservoir

Lake Hico was a cooling pond reservoir built on 16th section school land in Jackson, Mississippi, in the 1950s. Its primary purpose was to provide water for the adjacent Rex Brown Plant, which generates electricity with steam.

Hawkins Field

Aerodrome

Photo: USGS, Public domain.

Hawkins Field is a joint civil-military public airport in Jackson, Mississippi. It is owned by the City of Jackson and operated by the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority. Hawkins Field is situated 1½ miles southwest of Lake Hico Dam.

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Hospital

University of Mississippi Medical Center is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. University of Mississippi Medical Center is situated 2½ miles southeast of Lake Hico Dam.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jackson and Flowood.

Jackson

Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Jackson is the capital of the state of Mississippi. While it may not offer much in terms of tourism today, Jackson can be used as a stopover for getting to other parts of the state or further.

Flowood

Town

Flowood is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 10,202 as of the 2020 census. A suburb of Jackson, Flowood is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is located northeast of the state capital. Flowood is situated 5 miles southeast of Lake Hico Dam.

Lake Hico Dam

Type: Dam
Description: dam in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States of America
Location: Hinds, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

32.35515° or 32° 21′ 19″ north

Longitude

-90.20009° or 90° 12′ 0″ west

Elevation

322 feet (98 metres)

Open location code

864F9Q4X+3X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 357956147

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=dam

GeoNames ID

4432768

Wikidata ID

Q34868726

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Lake Hico Dam” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Lake Hico Dam”

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