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Black River Falls, Wisconsin
Black River Falls on the Black River in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout44.297, -90.845 · Jackson County · NID WI00043. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Black River 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
- Black River Falls, City of Local Government
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric, Recreation
- Completed
- 1912
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 18 ft
- Length
- 843 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled, 175 ft wide
- Storage
- 6,270 acre-ft · 198 acre pool
- Drainage
- 1,470 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
- Coffee Creek 0.37 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Black River 0.38 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Levis Creek 1.31 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
- Mark Holmgren Memorial Landing 0.1 mi · boat launch · Black River
- Perry Creek Park Launch 2.0 mi · boat launch · Black River
- Masons Landing 3.3 mi · canoe launch · Black River
- Canoe Campsite Launch 4.7 mi · canoe launch · Black River
- Halls Creek Canoe Landing 5.2 mi · canoe launch · Black River
- Mission Road Canoe Launch 5.5 mi · canoe launch · Black River
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
- American Outfitters 21.0 mi