Oxbow Dam
Oxbow Dam is a hydroelectric run-of-the-river rockfill dam in the western United States, on the Snake River in Hells Canyon along the Idaho-Oregon border.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Power station
- Description: hydroelectric run-of-the-river rockfill dam on the Snake River on the Idaho-Oregon border, United States
- Also known as: “Oxbow Power Plant”
Oxbow Dam
- Categories: embankment dam, hydroelectric power station, and industry
- Location: Adams, Idaho, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.97087° or 44° 58′ 15″ northLongitude
-116.84673° or 116° 50′ 48″ westInception
July 1961Operator
Idaho PowerOpen location code
85P5X5C3+88OpenStreetMap ID
way 1059933086Wikidata ID
Q7115136
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Oxbow Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Oxbow Dam (alihan sa tubig sa Estados Unidos, Idaho, Adams County, lat 44,97, long -116,84)”
- Cebuano: “Oxbow Dam”
- German: “Oxbow-Damm”
- Japanese: “オックスボウダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oxbow-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Oxbow-demningen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Оксбоу”
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