Horse Mesa Dam
The Horse Mesa Dam is a concrete thin arch dam located in the Superstition Mountains, northeast of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona. The dam is 660 feet long, 300 feet high and was built between 1924 and 1927.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Horse Mesa and Tortilla Flat.
Horse Mesa
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The Horse Mesa Dam is a concrete thin arch dam located in the Superstition Mountains, northeast of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona. The dam is 660 feet long, 300 feet high and was built between 1924 and 1927.
Tortilla Flat
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Tortilla Flat is a small unincorporated community in far eastern Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is located in the central part of the state, northeast of Apache Junction. Tortilla Flat is situated 5 miles southwest of Horse Mesa Dam.
Horse Mesa Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: concrete thin arch dam located in the Superstition Mountains
- Categories: hydroelectric power station and pumped-storage power station
- Location: Maricopa County, Arizona, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.59043° or 33° 35′ 26″ northLongitude
-111.34432° or 111° 20′ 40″ westElevation
1,916 feet (584 metres)Inception
1926Height
305 feet (93 metres)Open location code
855CHMR4+57OpenStreetMap ID
way 261083622OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Horse Mesa Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Horse Mesa Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد ميسا هورس”
- German: “Talsperre Horse Mesa”
- Italian: “diga di Horse Mesa”
- Turkish: “Horse Mesa Dam”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС-ГАЕС Горс-Меса”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Horse Mesa Dam”. Photo: Tobi 87, CC BY-SA 3.0.