Fort Randall Dam
Fort Randall Dam is a 2.03-mile-long earthen dam which spans the Missouri River and impounds Lake Francis Case, the 11th-largest reservoir in the U.S. The dam joins Gregory and Charles Mix counties, South Dakota, a distance of 880 river miles upstream of St. Louis, Missouri, where the river joins the Mississippi River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pickstown and Fort Randall.
Pickstown
Village
Pickstown is a town in southern Charles Mix County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 230 at the 2020 census. It was named after U.S. Army General Lewis A. Pickstown is situated 1½ miles northeast of Fort Randall Dam.
Fort Randall
Hamlet
The Fort Randall Military Post was established in 1856 to help keep peace on the frontier. It was located on the south side of the Missouri River in South Dakota, just below the present site of the Fort Randall Dam. Fort Randall is situated 4 miles southwest of Fort Randall Dam.
Fort Randall Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: embankment dam
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Unorganized Territory of Southeast Gregory, Gregory, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.05781° or 43° 3′ 28″ northLongitude
-98.55931° or 98° 33′ 34″ westElevation
1,368 feet (417 metres)Inception
1956Open location code
86M33C5R+47OpenStreetMap ID
way 900915387OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damGeoNames ID
5227851Wikidata ID
Q1279914
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Fort Randall Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fort Randall Dam”
- Chinese: “蘭德爾堡大壩”
- French: “barrage de Fort Randall”
- French: “Barrage de Fort Randall”
- German: “Fort-Randall-Talsperre”
- Japanese: “フォート・ランドールダム”
- Japanese: “フォートランダルダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Randall-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Fort Randall-demningen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Fort Randall”
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