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.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Industrial building
- Description: dam in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States of America
- Also known as: “Kortes Power Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Seminoe Dam.
Seminoe Dam
Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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
- Categories: dam, hydroelectric power station, building, and industry
- Location: Carbon, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.17428° or 42° 10′ 27″ northLongitude
-106.88056° or 106° 52′ 50″ westInception
June 1950Operator
U S Bureau of ReclamationOpen location code
85JM54F9+PQOpenStreetMap ID
way 864234571OpenStreetMap feature
building=industrialWikidata ID
Q14714791
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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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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kortes Reservoir and Kortes Benchmark.
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