Yellowtail Dam
Yellowtail Dam is a dam across the Bighorn River in south central Montana in the United States. The mid-1960s era concrete arch dam serves to regulate the flow of the Bighorn for irrigation purposes and to generate hydroelectric power.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Smith.
Fort Smith
Hamlet
Fort Smith is a census-designated place in Big Horn County, Montana, United States. The population was 161 at the 2010 census. The town is named for the former Fort C.F.
Yellowtail Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam on the Bighorn River in Big Horn County, Montana, United States
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Big Horn, Montana, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
45.30755° or 45° 18′ 27″ northLongitude
-107.95806° or 107° 57′ 29″ westElevation
3,642 feet (1,110 metres)Open location code
85QJ825R+2QOpenStreetMap ID
way 599489412OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Yellowtail Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yellowtail Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد يلوتيل”
- French: “barrage de Yellowtail”
- French: “Barrage de Yellowtail”
- German: “Yellowtail-Talsperre”
- Italian: “diga di Yellowtail”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yellowtail-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Yellowtail-demningen”
- Polish: “Bighorn”
- Polish: “Jezioro Bighorn”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Єллоутеїл”
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