Belle Fourche Dam


Belle Fourche Dam
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Construction of the Belle Fourche Dam, circa 1904
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Location	Butte County, South Dakota
Nearest city	Belle Fourche, South Dakota
Area	125 acres (51 ha)
Built	1911
NRHP Reference #	77001239^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 23, 1977

The Belle Fourche Dam, also known as Orman Dam, is a dam on Owl Creek in Butte County, South Dakota, USA, approximately eight miles east of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, along U.S. Route 212. Its construction created the Belle Fourche Reservoir, the Belle Fourche National Wildlife Refuge, and the Rocky Point Recreation Area.

The reservoir has approximately eight thousand acres of water surface, 6700 acres of land, and 58 miles of shoreline. It's stocked with walleye, catfish, and white bass. Average depth is twenty-five feet, but it has areas as deep as sixty feet at full capacity. Common activities at BFR include boating, fishing, ice fishing, ice skating, camping, cooking out, water skiing and fossil hunting.

At its 1911 completion by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, Belle Fourche Dam was the largest earthen dam in the world. The dam is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1989 it was listed among the approximately 250 Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks.

References

↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

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Coordinates: 44°44′09″N 103°40′27″W / 44.73576°N 103.6741°W / 44.73576; -103.6741

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