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Norfork Dam
Norfork Dam impounds the North Fork River (Missouri - Arkansas), North Fork River in the U.S. state of Arkansas, creating Norfork Lake. The large reservoir is maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and spans Baxter County, Arkansas, Fulton County, Arkansas and Ozark County, Missouri. The dam is located in the city of Salesville, Arkansas, Salesville in Baxter County, within the Ozark Mountains. Arkansas Highway 177 (AR 177) crosses the lake atop the dam. There are 19 recreational parks on the lake that provide places for camping, hiking, picnicking, swimming, boating, and water skiing. Commercial docks on Norfork Lake provide boats, motors, diving equipment, and guides to the lake. History Beginnings In 1902, a pamphlet was printed by the Mountain Home Commercial club advertising the area to mining interests and suggesting the area would be suitable for power-generating dams. Several entities, including Dixie Power Company and White River Power Company, wer ...
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Salesville, Arkansas
Salesville is a city in Baxter County, Arkansas, Baxter County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 450 in 2010. Geography Salesville is located in central Baxter County at (36.244845, -92.275619). The center of town is at the intersection of Arkansas Highway 5 and Arkansas Highway 177, 177, west of Norfork Dam. The North Fork River (Missouri–Arkansas), North Fork River, after coming out of the dam, forms the eastern boundary of Salesville. Arkansas Highway 5 leads northwest to Mountain Home, Arkansas, Mountain Home, the county seat, and south to the city of Norfork, Arkansas, Norfork and to Mountain View, Arkansas, Mountain View. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. List of highways * Arkansas Highway 5 * Arkansas Highway 177 Education Salesville is in the Norfork School District with students graduating from Norfork High School. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 437 people, 206 households, an ...
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Claude A
Claude may refer to: People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Callegari (1962–2021), English Arsenal supporter * Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer * Claude Kiambe (born 2003), Congolese-born Dutch singer * Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist and ethnologist * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher traditionally called just "Claude" in English * Claude Makélélé (born 1973), French football manager * Claude McKay (1890–1948), Jamaican-American writer and poet * Claude Monet (1840–1926), French painter * Claude Rains (1889–1967), British-American actor * Claude Shannon (1916–2001), American mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist * Madame Claude (1923–2015), French brothel keeper Fernande Grudet Places * Claude, Texas, a city * Claude, West Virginia, an unincorpora ...
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Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water. Constructed between 1933 and 1942, Grand Coulee originally had two powerhouses. The third powerhouse ("Nat"), completed in 1974 to increase energy production, makes Grand Coulee the largest power station in the United States by nameplate capacity at 6,809 MW. The proposal to build the dam was the focus of a bitter debate during the 1920s between two groups. One group wanted to irrigate the ancient Grand Coulee with a gravity canal while the other pursued a high dam and pumping scheme. The dam supporters won in 1933, but, although they fully intended otherwise, the initial proposal by the Bureau of Reclamation was for a "low dam" tall which would generate electricity without supporting irrigation. That year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and a consortium of three companies called MWAK (Mason-Walsh-Atkinson Kier ...
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Norfork Dam, 2005
Norfork is a city in Baxter County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 550 at the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (11.74%) is water. The White River flows 44 miles from Bull Shoals Dam to its confluence with the North Fork River's tailwater at Norfork. List Of Highways * Arkansas Highway 5 * Arkansas Highway 177 Demographics As of the census of 2000, the population density was . There were 283 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 96.07% White, 0.21% Black or African American, 1.50% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 0.41% from other races, and 1.45% from two or more races. 1.41% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 224 households, out of which 17.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.5% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, an ...
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North Fork River (Missouri–Arkansas)
The North Fork River or the North Fork of White River (Its official name is "North Fork River"; "North Fork of White River" is a recognized variant.) is a tributary of the White River, into which it flows near Norfork, Arkansas. It rises in the southwest corner of Texas County, at the southeast margin the city of Mountain Grove, and flows generally southwards through the southwest corner of Texas, eastern Douglas and Ozark counties. It flows through Mark Twain National Forest and gathers the waters of many streams, including its major tributary, Bryant Creek. The watershed includes major portions of eastern Douglas and Ozark counties and includes portions of Webster, Wright, Texas and Howell counties in Missouri. South of Tecumseh, Missouri, the river becomes Norfork Lake, a reservoir created by Norfork Dam in Baxter County, Arkansas. A few miles below the dam, the North Fork River joins the White River near the town of Norfork, Arkansas.''Arkansas Atlas & Gazett ...
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Batesville, Arkansas
Batesville is the largest city in and the county seat of Independence County, Arkansas, United States, 80 miles (128 km) northeast of Little Rock, the state capital. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city was 10,268. The city serves as a regional manufacturing and distribution hub for the Ozark Mountain region and Northeast Arkansas. History Batesville is the second oldest municipality after the town of Georgetown — and the oldest city — in the state of Arkansas. It was named for the first territorial delegate from Arkansas to the Congress of the United States, James Woodson Bates, who settled in the town. The town has also gone by the names of Napoleon and Poke Bayou. In early days, Batesville was an important port on the White River and served as an entry point to the interior of northern Arkansas. Batesville played a large role in the settling of the Ozark Mountains region and served as the central land office for northern Arkansas. The firs ...
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Hydroelectric Power
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is Electricity generation, electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies 15% of the world's electricity, almost 4,210 TWh in 2023, which is more than all other Renewable energy, renewable sources combined and also more than nuclear power. Hydropower can provide large amounts of Low-carbon power, low-carbon electricity on demand, making it a key element for creating secure and clean electricity supply systems. A hydroelectric power station that has a dam and reservoir is a flexible source, since the amount of electricity produced can be increased or decreased in seconds or minutes in response to varying electricity demand. Once a hydroelectric complex is constructed, it produces no direct waste, and almost always emits considerably less greenhouse gas than fossil fuel-powered energy plants.
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Harrison, Arkansas
The city of Harrison is the county seat of Boone County, Arkansas, United States. It is named after Marcus LaRue Harrison, a surveyor who laid out the city along Crooked Creek (Arkansas), Crooked Creek at Stifler Springs. According to 2019 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 13,069, up from 12,943 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census and it is the 30th largest city in Arkansas based on official 2019 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Harrison is the principal city of the Harrison Harrison, Arkansas micropolitan area, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Boone and Newton County, Arkansas, Newton counties. The community has a history of racism: there were two Mass racial violence in the United States, race riots in the early 20th century and an influx of White supremacy, white supremacist organizations during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. History Precolonial history Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native American ...
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Table Rock Lake
Table Rock Lake is an artificial lake or reservoir in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas in the United States. Designed, built and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lake is impounded by Table Rock Dam, which was constructed from 1954 to 1958 on the White River creating the lake. The lake is a popular attraction for the city of Branson, Missouri, and the nearby town of Shell Knob, Missouri. There are several commercial marinas along the lake, and Table Rock State Park is located on the east side, both north and south of Table Rock Dam. Downstream from the dam, the Missouri Department of Conservation operates a fish hatchery, which is used to stock trout in Lake Taneycomo, which begins immediately downstream from the Table Rock Dam. The cold water discharged from the dam creates a trout fishing environment in the lake. The lake derives its name from a rock formation resembling a table at the small community of Table Rock, Misso ...
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Bull Shoals Lake
Bull Shoals Lake is an artificial lake or reservoir in the Ozark Mountains of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, United States. It has hundreds of miles of lake arms and coves, and common activities include boating, water sports, swimming, and fishing. Nineteen developed parks around the shoreline provide campgrounds, boat launches, swim areas, and marinas. History Bull Shoals Dam was created to impound the White River by one of the largest concrete dams in the United States and was the fifth largest dam in the world at its inception. Work on the dam began in 1947, was completed in 1951 and dedicated by President Harry S. Truman in 1952. At least seven small family cemeteries and 20 larger cemeteries were meticulously relocated to accommodate the new lake. Recent national events include Brostock 2010 and 2011 and the TBF Bass Federation and Bassmaster Elite Series Tournaments in 2012. Hydrology Bull Shoals Lake impounds the White River for the last time as water tra ...
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White River (Mississippi River)
White River may refer to: Bodies of water Africa * Bakoy River, in West Africa, called the White River over a portion of its length Canada * White River (British Columbia) * White River (Vancouver Island), a river in the Discovery Passage–Johnstone Strait watersheds of British Columbia ** White River Provincial Park * White River (Nass River), a river in the Marcus Passage watershed of British Columbia * White River (Quebec) * White River (Yukon) * White River (Ontario) China * White River (China), an old name for the Hai River Dominica * White River (Dominica) Estonia * Valgejõgi, or "white river", in northern Estonia Iran * Sefīd-Rūd, or "the white river", in Gilan province Jamaica * White River (Jamaica), a river New Zealand * White River, New Zealand, a river in the South Island Montserrat * White River, Montserrat, a former river in Montserrat United Kingdom * St Austell River, a river in Cornwall also known as the White River Unit ...
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Flood Control Act Of 1938
The Flood Control Act of 1938 was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that authorized civil engineering projects such as dams, levees, dikes, and other flood control measures through the United States Army Corps of Engineers and other Federal agencies. It is one of a number of Flood Control Acts passed nearly annually by the United States Congress. Projects covered by the Act (partial list) Dams * Bull Shoals Dam (begun June 1947; completed July 1951) * Coralville, Iowa, dam forming Coralville Lake (begun 1949; completed 1958) * Delaware (Ohio) Dam (begun 1947; completed 1951) * Denison Dam * Green River Lake Dam, Kentucky (begun April 1964, completed June 1969) * Kinzua Dam (begun 1960; completed 1965) *Norfork Dam (begun 1941, completed 1944) *Raccoon Creek dam in Parke County, Indiana, forming Mansfield Lake (begun October 1956; completed July 1960). Mansfield Lake was renamed Cecil M. Harden Lake in 1974. See also: ...
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