Kortes Dam
Kortes Dam is a dam in Carbon County, Wyoming. The concrete gravity dam was constructed between 1946 and 1951 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 244 feet, and a length of 440 feet at its crest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
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Seminoe Dam
Power station
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Seminoe Dam is a concrete thick-arch dam on the North Platte River in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The dam stores water for irrigation and hydroelectricity generation and is owned and operated by the U.S. Seminoe Dam is situated 2 miles southwest of Kortes Dam.
Kortes Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States of America
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Carbon, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Italian—“Kortes Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kortes Dam (alihan sa tubig sa Estados Unidos, lat 42,17, long -106,88)”
- Cebuano: “Kortes Dam”
- Central Bikol: “Sagop Kortes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد كورتيس”
- German: “Talsperre Kortes”
- Italian: “diga di Kortes”
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