|
Lost Creek Reservoir (Morgan County, Utah)
Lost Creek Dam (National ID # UT10125) is a dam in Morgan County, Utah, United States. Description The earthen dam was constructed between 1963 and 1966 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) with a height of and long at its crest. It impounds Lost Creek for flood control, part of the Weber Basin Project. The dam is owned by the USBR and is operated by the local Weber Basin Water Conservancy District. Lost Creek Reservoir The reservoir it creates, Lost Creek Reservoir, has a total capacity of 22,510 acre-feet with a surface area of . Recreation includes fishing (rainbow trout and cutthroat trout) and boating. Lost Creek State Park is nearby. See also * List of dams and reservoirs in Utah Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Utah. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being tall with a storage capacity of at least , or of any height with a storage capacity of . Dams an ... References {{aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan County, Utah
Morgan County is a county in northern Utah, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,469. Its county seat and largest city is Morgan. Morgan County is part of the Ogden- Clearfield, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Salt Lake City- Provo-Orem, UT Combined Statistical Area. History An early route of the Hastings Cutoff ran through the Morgan Valley and down through a narrow gorge in Weber Canyon. The Donner Party avoided going through the Morgan Valley in order to speed up their journey. However, their alternate route proved more time-consuming. In 1855, Charles Sreeve Peterson and his family became the first white settlers to take up permanent residence in the Morgan Valley after cutting a road through Weber Canyon. After others began settling in the rather limited planar areas of the mountainous territory, the Utah Territory legislature acted on January 17, 1862, to form a separate county from sections partitioned off Davis, Great Salt Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its west by Nevada. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area; with a population over three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups such as the ancient Puebloans, Navajo and Ute. The Spanish were the first Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Bureau Of Reclamation
The Bureau of Reclamation, and formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation. Currently the Bureau of Reclamation is the largest wholesaler of water in the country, bringing water to more than 31 million people, and providing one in five Western farmers with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland, which produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts. The Bureau of Reclamation is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the western United States. On June 17, 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act, Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the U.S. Reclamation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go "back in time" and see how websites looked in the past. Its founders, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, developed the Wayback Machine to provide "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages. Launched on May 10, 1996, the Wayback Machine had more than 38.2 million records at the end of 2009. , the Wayback Machine had saved more than 760 billion web pages. More than 350 million web pages are added daily. History The Wayback Machine began archiving cached web pages in 1996. One of the earliest known pages was saved on May 10, 1996, at 2:08p.m. Internet Archive founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat launched the Wayback Machine in San Francisco, California, in October 2001, primarily to address the problem of web co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Creek Reservoir (Morgan County, Utah)
Lost Creek Dam (National ID # UT10125) is a dam in Morgan County, Utah, United States. Description The earthen dam was constructed between 1963 and 1966 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) with a height of and long at its crest. It impounds Lost Creek for flood control, part of the Weber Basin Project. The dam is owned by the USBR and is operated by the local Weber Basin Water Conservancy District. Lost Creek Reservoir The reservoir it creates, Lost Creek Reservoir, has a total capacity of 22,510 acre-feet with a surface area of . Recreation includes fishing (rainbow trout and cutthroat trout) and boating. Lost Creek State Park is nearby. See also * List of dams and reservoirs in Utah Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Utah. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being tall with a storage capacity of at least , or of any height with a storage capacity of . Dams an ... References {{aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
