Buffalo Bill Dam
Buffalo Bill Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming. 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
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cedar Mountain.
Buffalo Bill Dam
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location
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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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