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Phlox Dam, Wisconsin
Phlox Dam on the Red River in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout45.05328, -89.01234 · Langlade County · NID WI00047. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Red 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
- Town of Norwood Local Government
- Purpose
- Recreation, Hydroelectric
- Completed
- 1878 · modified 1927O;1992O
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 25 ft
- Length
- 275 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled, 10 ft wide
- Storage
- 390 acre-ft · 45 acre pool
- Drainage
- 13 sq mi
- Condition
- Satisfactory · 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
- Red 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
- Phlox Pond Access 0.1 mi · boat launch · Phlox Pond
- Hilger Lake Access 2.0 mi · boat launch · Hilger Lake
- Moose Lake Access 2.4 mi · boat launch · Moose Lake
- Moose Lake Access 2.4 mi · boat launch · Moose Lake
- Meyer Lake Access 3.0 mi · boat launch · Meyer Lake
- Gartsky Flowage Boat Ramp 5.8 mi · boat launch · Rabe Creek
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
- Riverside Bait and Tackle 30.7 mi