Dams in Meade County, South Dakota
177Total Dams
5High Hazard
7Significant
| Dam | Hazard | Condition | Height (ft) | Purpose | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Owl | High | Fair | 36 | Recreation | 1937 |
| Durkee | High | Fair | 32 | Recreation | 1938 |
| Opal Dam | High | Fair | 22 | Recreation | 1937 |
| Howie Dam | High | Fair | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 |
| C. Vansickel | High | Poor | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1936 |
| Buffalo Lake Road Dam 2 | Significant | 82 | Recreation | 1961 | |
| Sturgis #5 | Significant | 44 | Water Supply | 1959 | |
| Sturgis #4 | Significant | 37 | Water Supply | 1929 | |
| Sturgis #2 | Significant | 30 | Water Supply | 1894 | |
| J. Reed | Significant | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1964 | |
| H. Freeze | Significant | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1938 | |
| Hale 1 | Significant | 13 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1940 | |
| Curlew | Low | 43 | Recreation | 1956 | |
| Nelson Dam | Low | 34 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 2001 | |
| Olsen Dam | Low | 33 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1980 | |
| Mccasland And Schiller 4 | Low | 32 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1968 | |
| Cecil Vig | Low | 32 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1963 | |
| Tift Dam | Low | 32 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1979 | |
| E.j. Mooney Dam No.1 | Low | 32 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1959 | |
| Malon Dam | Low | 31 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 2001 | |
| Earl Mcpherson Dam No.1 | Low | 30 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1958 | |
| Tisdale Lake | Low | 30 | Recreation | 1935 | |
| Prairie View Farms Inc.1 | Low | 30 | Irrigation | 1973 | |
| Mccasland And Schiller 1 | Low | 29 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| D & D Farms | Low | 29 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1979 | |
| Ronald Philips Dam No.1 | Low | 29 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1972 | |
| Sanders Dam | Low | 29 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1937 | |
| Simons | Low | 29 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1997 | |
| Herford Lake | Low | 28 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1935 | |
| Bruch Bros. | Low | 28 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| Snook | Low | 28 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| Samuelson Dam | Low | 28 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1962 | |
| D. Talley | Low | 28 | Irrigation | 1964 | |
| Bedingfield Dam | Low | 28 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 2006 | |
| B. Helleckson | Low | 27 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1939 | |
| E. Hoffman No.9 | Low | 27 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| G. Boke No.1 | Low | 27 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1944 | |
| R. Talley No.1 | Low | 27 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| Samuelson Dam #2 | Low | 27 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 1999 | |
| T. Mahaffey | Low | 26 | Irrigation | 1948 | |
| Harwood | Low | 26 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| Bonita Springs Lake | Low | 26 | Recreation | 1935 | |
| Marvin Reinhold Dam No.1 | Low | 26 | Irrigation | 1959 | |
| Mccasland And Schiller 3 | Low | 25 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1968 | |
| Lewis & Tinsley Dam | Low | 25 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1959 | |
| Mt. View Ranch Dam | Low | 25 | Irrigation | 1965 | |
| Walter D. Miller Dam #1 | Low | 25 | Irrigation | 1963 | |
| J. Huston | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1972 | |
| Barry | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1945 | |
| M. Ogrady | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1970 | |
| Miller Dam | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1967 | |
| R. Howie | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1972 | |
| D. Nuzum | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| D. Timmons | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1973 | |
| E. Hoffman No. 2 | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1962 | |
| Fischbach | Low | 24 | Flood Risk Reduction | 1973 | |
| Poss Dam | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1978 | |
| L. Bachand | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1943 | |
| S. Schroder | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1969 | |
| William Olson | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| Jensen Dam | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1951 | |
| Cecil Vig | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1965 | |
| M. Weyers | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| E. Hoffman No. 1 | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1968 | |
| L. Reeves No.3 | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| Francis Chaffee Dam No.1 | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1957 | |
| Cecil Vig No. 4 | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1965 | |
| Talley Dam | Low | 22 | Recreation | 1938 | |
| C. Jordan | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| Christ Orwick | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| E. Hoffman No. 4 | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1969 | |
| R. Compton | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1962 | |
| D. Gifford No.1 | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1964 | |
| Cecil Vig | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1963 | |
| Carl Lungren Dam No.1 | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1935 | |
| Timmons Wetland Dam | Low | 22 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 1995 | |
| Phillips Dam | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 2000 | |
| Clarence Goff | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| A. Oakland | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| W. Grueb | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1951 | |
| T. Sternard | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1938 | |
| Ollie Stomprud | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| Collins Dam | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| Ralph Hampton | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| Samuelson Bros. No.2 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| C. Nuzum No.2 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| E. Hoffman No. 3 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1958 | |
| Carl Humphrey Dam No.1 | Low | 21 | Irrigation | 1966 | |
| L. Ingalls No.2 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| S. Baxter No. 1 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1962 | |
| Charles Weiss | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1951 | |
| E. Wilson | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1947 | |
| Delbridge Dam | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1931 | |
| Udager Dam | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| Patterson Holding | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1955 | |
| Samuelson Bros. No.1 | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1958 | |
| Diamond F Ranch | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1938 | |
| Harold Mikudik | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| Vig Dt Dam | Low | 20 | Flood Risk Reduction | 1973 | |
| Silbernagel Dam | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 2000 | |
| A. Simons | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| P. Bachman | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| Lundren 2 | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| Jordan Mundil | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| W. Jordan | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| E. Hoffman No. 5 | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1958 | |
| G. Boke No.2 | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| Floyd Strong | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| Bruch Bros. No.2 | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| Lee Crowser Dam No.1 | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| Howes Grazing Association | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1998 | |
| Shirley Miller | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| Blair Dam | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1985 | |
| Christ Orwick | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1958 | |
| Robert Schuelke | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| E. Mooney | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1947 | |
| Ted Olson | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1955 | |
| William Patterson | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1951 | |
| E. Hoffman No. 6 | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| Paul Young | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| D. Gifford No.2 | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1959 | |
| Raymond Hanzlik | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| Bobby Peters 2 | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1963 | |
| Roger Weiss | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| Freeman | Low | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1938 | |
| G. Welter | Low | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1945 | |
| W. Richardson | Low | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| N. Vansickel | Low | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| W. Mann No.1 | Low | 17 | Irrigation | 1948 | |
| Kellogg 1 | Low | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1940 | |
| Mccasland And Schiller 2 | Low | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1972 | |
| Charles Weiss | Low | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| I. Thompson | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| Anderson 5 | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1945 | |
| Wolken 1 | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| Wolken 2 | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1955 | |
| A. Fischbach Dam | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| Williamson Dam | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1984 | |
| R. Hampton No.1 | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| W. Mann No.2 | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1947 | |
| C. Nuzum No.1 | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| Reeves Cattle Co. No.2 | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| P. Lorang Grazing Assn | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1952 | |
| Haines Dam No. 1 | Low | 16 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 2000 | |
| Scull Dam | Low | 15 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 2013 | |
| Martha Munroe | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1951 | |
| Peters 1 | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1955 | |
| Mooney 1 | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| Walter Ingals | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1951 | |
| W. Mann No.3 | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| E. Hoffman No.8 | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| Samuelson Bros. No.4 | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| E.b. Wilson | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| L. Ingalls No.1 | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1942 | |
| S. Simon Dam | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| Charles Weiss | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| State Land | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| D. Keffeler | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| Anderson 1 | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1940 | |
| Russell Dam | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| D. Wood | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| Blazek Dam | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1943 | |
| Sd Komes 1 | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| E. Hoffman No. 7 | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1962 | |
| Reeves Cattle Co. No.1 | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| A. Samuelson No.1 | Low | 13 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1942 | |
| N. Overdahl | Low | 13 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1945 | |
| T. Mason | Low | 13 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1962 | |
| Richard Williamson | Low | 13 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| Wilson Ranch Dam | Low | 13 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1958 | |
| Haines Dam No. 2 | Low | 13 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 2000 | |
| John Anderson 2 | Low | 12 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1945 | |
| R. Howie | Low | 11 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| R. Talley No.2 | Low | 11 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1958 | |
| Strong 2 | Low | 11 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| George Levin Dam No.1 | Low | 10 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1951 | |
| Wilcox Dam | Low | 10 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 2009 |