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Kilbourn Dam, Wisconsin
Kilbourn Dam on the Wisconsin in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout43.626727, -89.781299 · Columbia County · NID WI00005. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Wisconsin 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
- Alliant Energy Private
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric, Recreation
- Completed
- 1909 · modified 2011O;2011O
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 61 ft
- Length
- 560 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled
- Storage
- 36,000 acre-ft · 1,868 acre pool
- Drainage
- 7,746 sq mi
- Condition
- Satisfactory · High 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
- Hulburt Creek 0.13 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
- Wisconsin Dells Landing - Crandalls Bay 0.6 mi · boat launch · Wisconsin River
- Lake Delton Fishing Pier 1.6 mi · walk in · Lake Delton
- Newport Park River Fishing Pier 1.9 mi · walk in · Wisconsin River
- Lake Blass Access 2.5 mi · canoe launch · Lake Blass
- Lake Delton Canyon Drive 2.5 mi · boat launch · Lake Delton
- Indian Trail Boat Launch 3.8 mi · boat launch · Wisconsin 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
- The Minnow Bucket 14.8 mi · Oxford
- Castle Rock Dam Bait Shop 18.6 mi · Friendship · +1-608-474-0532