Coolidge Dam
The Coolidge Dam is a reinforced concrete multiple dome and buttress dam 31 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona on the Gila River. Built between 1924 and 1928, the Coolidge Dam was part of the San Carlos Irrigation Project.Coolidge Dam
- Type: Dam
- Also known as: “Needles Eye”
- Location: Pinal County, Arizona, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.17465° or 33° 10′ 29″ north
Longitude
-110.52779° or 110° 31′ 40″ west
Elevation
2,369 feet (722 metres)
Established
1931
Height
250 feet (76 metres)
Operator
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Open location code
855F5FFC+VV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Coolidge Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Coolidge Dam”
- Danish: “Coolidge Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد كوليدج”
- Hebrew: “סכר קולידג‘”
- Japanese: “クーリッジ・ダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Coolidge-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Coolidge-demningen”
- Turkish: “Coolidge Dam”
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Places to explore: Coolidge Dam and Peridot.
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Places to explore: San Carlos Reservoir at Coolidge Dam and Gila River below Coolidge Dam.
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