2014年11月8日 · Anchor Dam—some writers have called it a “boondoggle”—stands today high above a small pool of water on upper Owl Creek, a tributary of the Bighorn River in the southwest corner of Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin. The U.S Bureau of Reclamation built the dam in the 1950s.

Man versus nature story with a dam and a leaking reservoir. A beautiful and isolated place in Wyoming with a scenic drive through large cattle and sheep ranches in the Owl Creek Valley, expansive views of the Owl Creek & Absaroka Mountains, wildlife, petroglyphs, and large folds of sedimentary rock. Enjoy!

Anchor Dam is a dam in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, about 35 miles (56 km) west of Thermopolis. The concrete thin-arch dam was completed in 1960 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation as a water storage project. The 208-foot (63 m)-high dam structure impounds the water of the South Fork of Owl Creek, with the spillway as designed as a ...

Anchor Reservoir (Current Reservoir Data) Overview The dam is placed on fresh competent sandstone of the Tensleep Formation which was grouted and concreted to seal joints and cavities in dolomite interbeds.

Anchor Dam is a concrete arch dam located about 8 miles from Embar, Hot Springs, Wyoming. The dam, which is on the South Fork Owl Creek River, was primarily built for Irrigation purposes, but also serves for benefits.

Anchor Dam is a concrete thin-arch dam in a narrow gorge on the South Fork of Owl Creek. The structure is 208 feet high with a crest length of 660 feet. The spillway is an uncontrolled overflow type notched into the central part of the dam, with a maximum discharge capacity of 13,500 cubic feet per second.

Description: This dataset represents the official boundary of the Wind River Indian Reservation (WRIR) as developed by the Wyoming State Engineer's Office. It is intended to be used by state agencies for any public maps that depict the reservation boundary for any official State purposes and to determine jurisdiction for regulatory agencies.

Free printable topographic map of Anchor Dam in Hot Springs County, WY including photos, elevation & GPS coordinates.

The range forms the boundary between the Bighorn Basin to the north and the Shoshone Basin to the south. The Wind River passes through the gap between the range and the Bridger Mountains to the east, and becomes the Bighorn River on the north side of the mountains.

Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wyoming. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).