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Big Falls Milldam, Wisconsin
Big Falls Milldam on the Little Wolf in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout44.619587, -89.015032 · Waupaca County · NID WI00031. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Little Wolf carries no anadromous run on our corridor map, so this page makes no claim about salmon or steelhead at this dam. What it sits on is coldwater — resident trout water — and the section below says which classification says so.
The structure
- Owner
- Iowater Power Corporation Private
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric
- Completed
- 1926
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 30 ft
- Length
- 256 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled, 92 ft wide
- Storage
- 150 acre-ft · 23 acre pool
- Drainage
- 183 sq mi
- Condition
- Satisfactory · Low hazard potential
- Status
- Normal Operations
From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.
The water above and below
- Little Wolf River 0.55 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Spaulding Creek 0.57 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Whitcomb Creek 1.49 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (WDNR) · typed Cold
Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.
Water right now
No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 20 miles of this dam, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.
Getting to it
- Big Falls Pond Boat Ramp 0.0 mi · boat launch · Big Falls Pond/Little Wolf River
- Keller Lake Access 2.5 mi · canoe launch · Keller Lake
- Kinney Lake Access 3.4 mi · boat launch · Kinney Lake
- Campbell Lake Access 4.3 mi · boat launch · Campbell Lake
- Cedar Lake Access 4.5 mi · boat launch · Cedar Lake
- Goodhal (Moon) Lake Access 5.2 mi · boat launch · Goodhal Lake
Public access sites near the dam, straight-line distance. A dam itself is private property unless its owner says otherwise; these are the places the state lists as open.
Fly shops nearby
- Taps And Tackle Co. 27.0 mi · Stevens Point · +1-715-341-7400