Hebgen Lake
Hebgen Lake is a reservoir created by the Hebgen Dam, located in Gallatin County in southwest Montana. It is well known for the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake which occurred nearby on August 17, 1959, forming Quake Lake, which is located immediately downstream.- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir in on the Madison River in Gallatin County, Montana, United States
- Also known as: “Hebgen Reservoir”
Hebgen Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Gallatin, Montana, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.72426° or 44° 43′ 27″ north
Longitude
-111.22282° or 111° 13′ 22″ west
Elevation
6,539 feet (1,993 metres)
Open location code
85PCPQFG+PV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoir
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Italian—“Hebgen Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة هيبغين”
- Bulgarian: “Хебжън”
- Catalan: “Hebgen Lake”
- Cebuano: “Hebgen Lake”
- Chinese: “希伯根湖”
- Chinese: “赫布根湖”
- French: “lac Hebgen”
- French: “Lac Hebgen”
- French: “Lac Hegben”
- Italian: “lago Hebgen”
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