Orwell Dam
Orwell Dam is a dam in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, about six miles southwest of Fergus Falls. The earthen gravity dam was constructed in 1953 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with a height of 60 feet and a length of 1355 feet at its crest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Monitoring station
- Description: dam in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States of America
- Also known as: “Orwell Lake at Orwell Dam” and “ORWELL LAKE AT ORWELL DAM NEAR FERGUS FALLS, MN”
Orwell Dam
- Category: dam
- Location: Orwell Township, Otter Tail, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
46.21639° or 46° 12′ 59″ northLongitude
-96.17806° or 96° 10′ 41″ westElevation
1,053 feet (321 metres)Operator
United States Geological SurveyOpen location code
86R56R8C+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 13433701285OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=monitoring_stationGeoNames ID
5040378Wikidata ID
Q14692978
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Italian—“Orwell Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Orwell Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد اورويل”
- Italian: “diga di Orwell”
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