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City Dam, Wisconsin
City Dam on the Yellow River in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout45.406576, -91.85937 · Barron County · NID WI00096. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Yellow 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
- City Of Barron Local Government
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric, Recreation
- Completed
- 1879 · modified 1918O;1988O;1992O
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 17 ft
- Length
- 300 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled, 98 ft wide
- Storage
- 400 acre-ft · 65 acre pool
- Drainage
- 141 sq mi
- Condition
- Fair · Significant hazard potential
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
- Yellow River 0.0 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (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
- Lions Park Canoe Launch 1.2 mi · canoe launch · Yellow River
- Red Cedar River - Johnson Landing 4.0 mi · boat launch · Red Cedar River
- Babe & Phil Park and Boat Landing 4.9 mi · boat launch · Cranberry Creek
- Sawyer Landing 5.3 mi · boat launch · Red Cedar River
- Cranberry Creek Carry-In 5.3 mi · canoe launch · Cranberry Creek
- Poskin Lake Access 5.7 mi · boat launch · Poskin 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.