Chief Joseph Dam
The Chief Joseph Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River, 2.4 km upriver from Bridgeport, Washington. The dam is 877 km upriver from the mouth of the Columbia at Astoria, Oregon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gallaher House.
Gallaher House
Residential building
Photo: Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Gallaher House is a historic octagon house built by James Madison Kinney. James started building the house in 1912 and it was completed in the spring of 1914. Gallaher House is situated 2 miles northwest of Chief Joseph Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bridgeport.
Bridgeport
Photo: Andrew Filer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bridgeport is a town of 2,600 people in the Columbia River Plateau of Washington State. It has over 1.5 mi of Columbia River waterfront within the City Limits.
Chief Joseph Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: gravity dam on the Columbia River in Washington, United States
- Categories: gravity dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Douglas, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Chief Joseph Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chief Joseph Dam”
- Chinese: “約瑟夫酋長水壩”
- Czech: “Přehrada náčelníka Josefa”
- French: “Barrage Chief Joseph”
- French: “barrage de Chef Joseph”
- French: “Barrage de Chef Joseph”
- French: “Barrage du Chief Joseph”
- German: “Chief Joseph Dam”
- German: “Chief-Joseph-Talsperre”
- German: “Foster Creek Dam”
- German: “Rufus Woods Lake”
- Japanese: “チーフ・ジョゼフ・ダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chief Joseph-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Chief Joseph-demningen”
- Slovenian: “Jez poglavarja Josepha”
- Spanish: “Presa Chief Joseph”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Вождя Джозефа”
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