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Bostwick Park Project
Silver Jack Dam (NID #CO01693) is a dam in Gunnison County, Colorado. The earthen dam was constructed between 1966 and 1971 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of , long at its crest, and a morning glory spillway. It impounds the East Fork Cimarron River for irrigation storage, as the main part of the larger Bostwick Park Project on the Colorado Western Slope, Western Slope. The dam is owned by the Bureau and operated by the local Bostwick Park Water Conservancy District. The reservoir it creates, Silver Jack Reservoir, has a normal water surface of , a normal elevation of and a maximum capacity of . Recreation includes fishing, camping, boating, hunting, and hiking. References {{authority control Dams in Colorado Reservoirs in Colorado United States Bureau of Reclamation dams Dams completed in 1971 Buildings and structures in Gunnison County, Colorado Lakes of Gunnison County, Colorado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnison County, Colorado
Gunnison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 16,918. The county seat is Gunnison, Colorado, Gunnison. The county was named for John W. Gunnison, a United States Army officer and captain in the Corps of Topographical Engineers, Army Topographical Engineers, who surveyed for the transcontinental railroad in 1853. History Archeological studies have dated the Ute people's appearance in the Uncompahgre Peak, Uncompahgre region of Colorado as early as 1150 A.D. Possibilities exist that they are descendants of an earlier people living in the area as far back as 1500 B.C. They were a nomadic people moving about the Western Slope of Colorado in the various parts of the year. In the early to mid-1600s the Spanish Empire, Spaniards of New Mexico introduced the horse which changed their patterns of hunting taking them across the divide to the eastern slopes and into conflict with the Plains Indians w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
