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West Fork Kickapoo 16 Dam, Wisconsin
West Fork Kickapoo 16 Dam on the Tr West Fork Kickapoo in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout43.659669, -90.801185 · Vernon County · NID WI00421. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Tr West Fork Kickapoo 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
- Vernon County Local Government
- Purpose
- Flood Risk Reduction, Recreation
- Completed
- 1971
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 44 ft
- Length
- 330 ft
- Spillway
- Uncontrolled
- Storage
- 280 acre-ft · 1 acre pool
- Drainage
- 2 sq mi
- Condition
- Fair · Low 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
- West Fork Kickapoo River 0.68 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Knapp Creek 0.7 mi from the dam · Class III · stocked (WDNR)
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
- Jersey Valley Lake Fishing Pier 2.2 mi · walk in · Jersey Valley 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
- The Driftless Angler 8.3 mi · Viroqua
- American Outfitters 25.3 mi
- Tri State Bait & Tackle 27.7 mi · La Crescent
- River n Ridge Outdoors 29.2 mi · +15635384188