Long Branch Dam

Long Branch Dam is a dam in Macon County in northern Missouri, about eighty miles north of Columbia, Missouri.

The dam is a project of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to provide flood control, water storage, wildlife conservation, and recreation. Completed in 1978, the 71-foot-high earthen dam impounds the water of the East Fork of the Little Chariton River.^[1]

Long Branch Lake is the reservoir created by the dam, with about 24 miles of shoreline and a flood-control capacity of 98,000 acre-feet. In addition to the adjacent state-run Long Branch State Park with three separate units,^[2] the dam has a visitor's center at its southern end, and the Atlanta State Wildlife Area at its northern end.

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^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-09-21. Retrieved 2014-09-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Long Branch State Park". 10 December 2010.

Coordinates: 39°45′09″N 92°30′53″W / 39.75239°N 92.51465°W / 39.75239; -92.51465

[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-09-21. Retrieved 2014-09-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Long Branch State Park". 10 December 2010.

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