Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike, originally Engle Dam, is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, in...
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stationed at Elephant Butte. It is impounded by Elephant Butte Dam and is part of the largest state park in New Mexico, Elephant Butte Lake State Park...
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(320 km) of shoreline. Elephant Butte Dam is named after a rock formation resembling an elephant. Crews began construction on the dam in 1911 and ended in...
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Rio Grande Project (category Dams in New Mexico)
base of Elephant Butte Dam. The construction of power transmission lines was begun in 1940, and was finally completed by 1952. The Elephant Butte Irrigation...
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Elephant Butte is a summit that is now in the Elephant Butte Reservoir and within the Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Sierra County, New Mexico. It has...
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of dams and diversion in the Rio Grande basin. The Rio Grande Project built the Elephant Butte Dam and the Caballo Dam. A number of diversion dams were...
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Dams on the Rio Grande include Rio Grande Dam, Cochiti Dam, Elephant Butte Dam, Caballo Dam, Amistad Dam, Falcon Dam, Anzalduas Dam, and Retamal Dam....
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settlement did not begin until the construction of Elephant Butte Dam and its reservoir in 1912; the dam was completed in 1916. It was a part of the Rio...
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Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, United States. In conjunction with Elephant Butte Dam, which lies about 25 miles (40 km) upstream, it regulates the discharge...
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construction of the Elephant Butte Dam and had its own post office during 1919 and 1920, when the mail was sent to Engle. Elephant Butte Cemetery lies on...
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The Elephant Butte Historic District, a historic district in the Elephant Butte, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in...
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incorporates several New Mexico state highways passing along Elephant Butte Dam, Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Caballo Lake, Caballo Mountains and Black...
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Elephant Butte Canyon, also known as Lawhorn Canyon, is a canyon in the Animas Mountains of Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Its stream is a tributary of Walnut...
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Pecos River (redirect from Dams on the Pecos River)
Bulletin Number 75: Flow of the Rio Grande and Related Data; From Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico". International Boundary and Water...
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Elephant Butte Dam was closed in 2001 to traffic. NM 195 begins at a junction with NM 177. It travels northwest and travels over the Elephant Butte Dam...
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tanks were introduced on Presidio County ranches in the late 1880s. Elephant Butte Dam was built in 1910 on the Rio Grande, creating a large, reliable irrigation...
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bluffs, Crested Butte, which is a 12,168 ft (3,709 m) mountain in Colorado, and Elephant Butte, which is now an island in Elephant Butte Reservoir in New...
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(New Mexico) Caballo Dam and Caballo Lake (New Mexico) Elephant Butte Dam and Elephant Butte Reservoir (New Mexico) Rio Salado (New Mexico) Rio Puerco...
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tallest dams in the United States. The main list includes all U.S. dams over 300 feet (91 m) tall, and a second list gives the tallest dams in each state...
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Bulletin Number 75: Flow of the Rio Grande and Related Data; From Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico". International Boundary and Water...
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the valley is Cochiti Dam at the river's confluence with the Santa Fe River. Other major dams are Elephant Butte Dam and Caballo Dam. Diversion structures...
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Bulletin Number 75: Flow of the Rio Grande and Related Data; From Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico". International Boundary and Water...
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Retrieved January 16, 2021. "Elephant Butte Dam". U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved January 16, 2021. "Elephant Butte Hydro Plant". Global Energy Observatory...
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Waters of the Rio Grande enabled the construction of Elephant Butte Dam, the first major Rio Grande dam, in New Mexico. While this benefited water users along...
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Grande, before that river was flooded by the Elephant Butte Reservoir created by the Elephant Butte Dam. Its mouth is now on the western edge of that...
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the Mesilla Valley. Viljoen was interested in the creation of the Elephant Butte Dam and developed irrigation systems for the valley. For a short while...
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Bulletin Number 75: Flow of the Rio Grande and Related Data; From Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico". International Boundary and Water...
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Retrieved May 13, 2012. "Fort Peck Dam (Fort Peck Lake)". Lakes Online. Retrieved May 13, 2012. "Grand Coulee Dam Hydraulics & Hydrology". Columbia Basin...
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Bulletin Number 75: Flow of the Rio Grande and Related Data; From Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico". International Boundary and Water...
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confluence lies just northeast of Truth or Consequences and just below the Elephant Butte Dam at 33°08′54″N 107°13′16″W / 33.14833°N 107.22111°W / 33.14833;...
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