California
San Joaquin Valley
Tulare County

Success Dam

Schafer Dam—formerly Success Dam, prior to 2019—is a dam across the in , United States. Serving mainly for flood control and irrigation, the dam is an earthen embankment structure 156 feet high and 3,490 feet long.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Dam
  • Description: dam in Porterville, California
  • Also known as: “Richard L. Schafer Dam”, “Schafer Dam”, and “Success Lake Dam”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lake Success.

Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, Public domain.
Success Lake is a near , on the near the southern end of the . It was formed in 1961, when construction of Success Dam was completed.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porterville.

Photo: Ragnar1470, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city at the base of Southern Sierra Nevada mountains on the eastern side of , in , United States.

Success Dam

Latitude
36.06053° or 36° 3′ 38″ north
Longitude
-118.91827° or 118° 55′ 6″ west
Elevation
679 feet (207 metres)
Open location code
8583336J+6M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 131193812
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­dam
Geo­Names ID
5399473
Wiki­data ID
Q7632564
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Satellite Map

Discover Success Dam from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

“Success Dam” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Success Dam”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Worth and East Porterville.

Nearby Places

Explore places such as Tule River/Success Dam and Road 284 & Highway 190 - Park & Ride.

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