Buffalo Bill Dam

Buffalo Bill Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the in the U.S. state of . Originally 325 feet, it was the tallest dam in the world when it opened in 1910; a 25-foot extension was added in 1992 in one of the numerous changes and…
  • Dam
  • …lies at an elevation of 5,371 feet (1,637 metres)
  • …is also known as “Shoshone Dame”
  • Description: dam on the Shoshone River in Park County, Wyoming, United States

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Buffalo Bill Dam

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Latitude
44.50106° or 44° 30′ 4″ north
Longitude
-109.18376° or 109° 11′ 2″ west
Open location code
85PGGR28+CF
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Romanian—“Buffalo Bill Dam” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Buffalo Bill Dam”
  • Dutch: “Buffalo Bill Dam”
  • Dutch: “Buffalo Billdam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سد بوفالو بيل”
  • French: “Buffalo Bill Dam”
  • German: “Buffalo Bill Dam”
  • German: “Buffalo Bill Reservoir”
  • German: “Buffalo-Bill-Talsperre”
  • German: “Shoshone Dam”
  • Italian: “diga di Buffalo Bill”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buffalo Bill Dam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buffalo Bill-dammen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buffalo Bill-demningen”
  • Norwegian: “Buffalo Bill-demningen”
  • Romanian: “Barajul Buffalo Bill”

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