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Fort Peck Dam
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Fort Peck Dam

Dam in Valley County, northeast Montana. It is located 27 km/17 mi southeast of Glasgow. Constructed on the Missouri River to provide hydroelectric power, flood control, irrigation, and better navigation, this Public Works Administration project was completed by 1940. One of the largest hydraulic earth-filled dams in the world, it is 6,537 m/21,432 ft-long and 76 m/249 ft high.

The dam forms Fort Peck Lake, the largest Montana reservoir and the second-largest in the USA; length 140 km/90 mi. The town of Fort Peck was built by the Federal government in the early 1930s to house dam workers; population (1990) 300. To the northeast of the dam is the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, which is home to the Yanktonai Sioux and Assiniboine peoples; population (1990) 10,600.



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