Heart Butte Dam is a dam in
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of southwestern
North Dakota
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. The dam was a project of the
United States Bureau of Reclamation
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completed in 1949, primarily for irrigation and
flood control
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. The earthen dam is 142 feet in height and impounds the
Heart River.
Lake Tschida is the reservoir created by the dam, with about 3400 acres of water surface, about 55 miles of shoreline, and with a capacity of over 214,000
acre-feet
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of water. The name Tschida comes from the first mayor of
Glen Ullin, North Dakota
Glen Ullin is a city in Morton County, North Dakota, United States. It is part of the " Bismarck, ND Metropolitan Statistical Area" or " Bismarck-Mandan". The population was 732 at the 2020 census.
History
Glen Ullin was founded in 1883 along t ...
, the Vienna-born Michael Tschida Sr., elected in 1906 and a strong proponent of the dam project. The Heart Butte Reservoir State Game Management Area stands on the southern shore of the lake. As the only sizable body of water in the area, it is popular for recreational fishing, camping, boating, and other activities.
[http://www.laketschida.com/information.htm]
See also
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List of dams and reservoirs in North Dakota
*
List of dams in the Missouri River watershed
This is a list of dams in the watershed of the Missouri River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, in the United States
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References
External links
Heart Butte Dam - USBRLake Tschida InfoLake Tschida visitors page
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Dams in North Dakota
Reservoirs in North Dakota
United States Bureau of Reclamation dams
Bodies of water of Grant County, North Dakota
Earth-filled dams
Dams completed in 1949