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Hoover Dam

The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of and . Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D.
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  • Type: Dam
  • Description: hydroelectric dam on the Colorado River, United States
  • Historically known as: “Boulder Dam”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hoover Dam Visitor Center and Winged Figures of the Republic.

Tourism office
Photo: Veronidae, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a tourism office, which is situated 410 feet west of Hoover Dam.

Work of art
Photo: MARELBU, CC BY 3.0.
is a work of art, which is situated 460 feet northwest of Hoover Dam.

Bridge
Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is an arch bridge that spans the between the U.S. states of and . The bridge is located within the approximately 30 miles southeast of , and carries Interstate 11 and U.S. Route 93 over the Colorado River. is situated 1,600 feet southwest of Hoover Dam.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boulder City.

Photo: Matt Kieffer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a city of 15,000 people in , which was built for construction workers of the nearby Hoover Dam. It is one of only two cities in where gambling is prohibited.

Hoover Dam

Latitude
36.01572° or 36° 0′ 57″ north
Longitude
-114.73806° or 114° 44′ 17″ west
Elevation
1,106 feet (337 metres)
Inception
1936
Height
726 feet (221 metres)
Operator
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Open location code
85872786+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 49938932
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­heritage
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­dam
Geo­Names ID
5298509
Wiki­data ID
Q172822
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hoover Dam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سد هوفر”
  • Armenian: “Հուվերի ամբարտակ”
  • Asturian: “Presa Hoover”
  • Azerbaijani: “Huver bəndi”
  • Basque: “Hoover presa”
  • Belarusian: “Плаціна Гувера”
  • Belarusian: “плаціна Гувэра”
  • Bengali: “হুভার বাঁধ”
  • Bosnian: “Hooverova brana”
  • Bulgarian: “ВЕЦ Хувър Дам”
  • Bulgarian: “Хувър бент”
  • Bulgarian: “Хувър Дам”
  • Bulgarian: “Хувър дем”
  • Catalan: “Hoover Dam”
  • Catalan: “Presa Hoover”
  • Cebuano: “Hoover Dam”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەنداوی ھوڤەر”
  • Chinese: “胡佛坝”
  • Chinese: “胡佛大坝/胡佛大壩”
  • Chinese: “胡佛大坝”
  • Chinese: “胡佛大壩”
  • Chinese: “胡佛水坝”
  • Chinese: “胡佛水壩”
  • Croatian: “Hooverova brana”
  • Czech: “Hoover Dam”
  • Czech: “Hooverova přehrada”
  • Danish: “Hoover Dam”
  • Dhivehi: “ހޫވަރ ޑޭމު”
  • Dutch: “Hoover Dam”
  • Dutch: “Hooverdam”
  • Esperanto: “Akvobaraĵo Hoover”
  • Esperanto: “Hoover Dam”
  • Estonian: “Hooveri pais”
  • Finnish: “Hooverin padon vesivoimalaitos”
  • Finnish: “Hooverin pato”
  • French: “barrage Hoover”
  • French: “Barrage Hoover”
  • French: “Hoover Dam”
  • Galician: “Encoro Hoover”
  • Galician: “Presa Hoover”
  • Georgian: “ჰუვერის კაშხალი”
  • German: “Boulder Dam”
  • German: “Boulder-Staudamm”
  • German: “Hoover Dam”
  • German: “Hoover-Damm”
  • German: “Hoover-Staudamm”
  • German: “Hoover-Staumauer”
  • German: “Hoover-Talsperre”
  • German: “Hooverdamm”
  • German: “Hooverstaudamm”
  • Greek: “Φράγμα Χούβερ”
  • Hebrew: “הובר דאם”
  • Hebrew: “סכר בולדר”
  • Hebrew: “סכר הובר”
  • Hindi: “हूवर बांध”
  • Hungarian: “Hoover-gát”
  • Indonesian: “Bendungan Hoover”
  • Irish: “Damba Hoover”
  • Italian: “diga di Hoover”
  • Italian: “Diga di Hoover”
  • Italian: “Hoover Dam”
  • Japanese: “フーヴァー・ダム”
  • Japanese: “フーヴァーダム”
  • Japanese: “フーバー・ダム”
  • Japanese: “フーバーダム”
  • Japanese: “フーバーダムの”
  • Japanese: “ボールダーダム”
  • Kabiyè: “Huva lɩŋgamʋʋ”
  • Kannada: “ಹೂವರ್ ಆಣೆಕಟ್ಟು”
  • Kazakh: “Гувер бөгеті”
  • Korean: “후버 댐”
  • Korean: “후버댐”
  • Kurdish: “Bendava Hoover”
  • Lao: “ເຂື່ອນຮູເວີ”
  • Lao: “ບາລາດຮູເວີ”
  • Latin: “Moles Hooverana”
  • Latvian: “Hūvera aizsprosts”
  • Lithuanian: “Huverio damba”
  • Lithuanian: “Huverio užtvanka”
  • Malay: “Empangan Hoover”
  • Malayalam: “ഹൂവർ അണക്കെട്ട്”
  • Marathi: “हूवर डॅम”
  • Marathi: “हूवर धरण”
  • Marathi: “हूव्हर धरण”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Boulderdammen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hoover-demningen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hooverdammen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hooverdemningen”
  • Norwegian: “Hooverdammen”
  • Persian: “سد هوور”
  • Polish: “Hoover Dam”
  • Polish: “Tama Hoovera”
  • Polish: “Zapora Hoovera”
  • Portuguese: “Barragem de hoover”
  • Portuguese: “Barragem Hoover”
  • Portuguese: “Hoover Dam”
  • Portuguese: “Represa Hoover”
  • Pushto: “د هوور بند”
  • Romanian: “Barajul Hoover”
  • Romanian: “Boulder Dam”
  • Romanian: “Hoover Dam”
  • Russian: “ГЭС Гувера”
  • Russian: “Дамба Гувера”
  • Russian: “Плотина Гувера”
  • Scots: “Hoover Dam”
  • Serbian: “Боулдер брана”
  • Serbian: “Хуверова брана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hooverova brana”
  • Sinhala: “හූවර් වේල්ල”
  • Slovak: “Hoover Dam”
  • Slovak: “Hooverova priehrada”
  • Slovenian: “Hooverjev jez”
  • Spanish: “Presa Hoover”
  • Spanish: “Represa Hoover”
  • Swedish: “Boulderdammen”
  • Swedish: “Hooverdammen”
  • Tamil: “ஊவர் அணை”
  • Tamil: “பவுல்டர் அணை”
  • Tamil: “போல்டர் அணை”
  • Tamil: “ஹூவர் அணை”
  • Telugu: “హూవర్ డామ్”
  • Thai: “เขื่อนฮูเวอร์”
  • Thai: “เขื่อนฮูเวอร์แดม”
  • Thai: “ฮูเวอร์แดม”
  • Turkish: “Hoover Barajı”
  • Ukrainian: “Гребля Гувера”
  • Ukrainian: “Дамба Гувера”
  • Vietnamese: “Đập Hoover”
  • Western Frisian: “Hoover Daam”
  • Western Frisian: “Hooverdaam”
  • Wu Chinese: “胡佛水坝”
  • Yue Chinese: “胡佛大壩”

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