Big Bend Dam
Big Bend Dam is a major embankment rolled-earth dam on the Missouri River in Central South Dakota, United States, creating Lake Sharpe. The dam was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Pick-Sloan Plan for Missouri watershed development authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Thompson.
Fort Thompson
Town
Fort Thompson is a census-designated place in Buffalo County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,282 at the 2010 census, making it the largest settlement on the Crow Creek Reservation.
Big Bend Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam on the Missouri River in South Dakota, US
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Unorganized Territory of Crow Creek, Buffalo, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.04881° or 44° 2′ 56″ northLongitude
-99.45049° or 99° 27′ 2″ westElevation
1,444 feet (440 metres)Open location code
86P22GXX+GROpenStreetMap ID
way 1059933100OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Big Bend Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Big Bend Dam”
- French: “barrage de Big Bend”
- French: “Barrage de Big Bend”
- French: “Big Bend Dam”
- German: “Talsperre Big Bend”
- Japanese: “ビッグベンドダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Big Bend-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Big Bend-demningen”
- Swedish: “Big Bend”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Біг-Бенд”
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