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Box Butte Dam (National ID # NE01069) is a dam in the arid northwestern panhandle area of Dawes County, Nebraska.

The earthen dam was constructed from 1941 through 1946 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation with a structural height of Шаблон:Convert and Шаблон:Convert long at its crest.[1] It impounds the Niobrara River for flood control, part of the Bureau's Mirage Flats Project for irrigation water storage. No hydroelectric power is produced here.[2]

The reservoir it creates, Box Butte Reservoir, has a water surface of Шаблон:Convert, Шаблон:Convert of surrounding land, about Шаблон:Convert of shoreline, and a capacity of Шаблон:Convert.[3] Recreation includes fishing (for northern pike, walleye, largemouth bass, yellow perch, and channel cat), hunting, boating, camping and hiking.

The southern shore of the lake borders the Box Butte Reservoir State Recreation Area.

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