Fort Cobb Reservoir (also called Fort Cobb Lake) is a
reservoir
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Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...
located in
Caddo County in the
U.S. state
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of
Oklahoma
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. It impounds the waters of
Cobb Creek (joining from the west), Lake Creek (joining from the north), and Willow Creek (joining from the northeast). The lake covers approximately of water and of shoreline. Its drainage area is . It was constructed in 1958. The towns of
Carnegie,
Fort Cobb
Fort Cobb was a United States Army post established in what is now Caddo County, Oklahoma in 1859 to protect relocated Native Americans from raids by the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne. The fort was abandoned by Maj. William H. Emory at the begin ...
, and
Eakly are located nearby.
Fort Cobb Dam is on Cobb Creek about north of Fort Cobb, and roughly above the confluence of Cobb Creek with the
Washita River
The Washita River () is a river in the U.S. states of Texas and Oklahoma. The river is long and terminates at its confluence with the Red River of the South, Red River, which is now part of Lake Texoma () on the TexasOklahoma border.
Geogra ...
. The dam is a zoned earthfill structure containing 3,569,185 cubic yards (2,729,000 m
3) of embankment. The crest width is , and the crest length is . The structural height of the dam is .
Fort Cobb Reservoir has a total capacity of and covers an area of at top of flood pool level. The uncontrolled morning-glory spillway in the left abutment consists of a concrete intake structure, concrete conduit, and concrete chute and stilling basin.
The Fort Cobb Reservoir is part of the
Washita Basin Project of the
Bureau of Reclamation
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, which also includes
Foss Reservoir on the
Washita River
The Washita River () is a river in the U.S. states of Texas and Oklahoma. The river is long and terminates at its confluence with the Red River of the South, Red River, which is now part of Lake Texoma () on the TexasOklahoma border.
Geogra ...
in
Custer County, along with numerous small flood-control structures on creeks and streams. Municipal and industrial water is supplied to the city of Anadarko and Western Farmers Electric Cooperative through the Anadarko Aqueduct which begins at the Fort Cobb Reservoir.
Recreation and fish and wildlife
Fort Cobb Reservoir provides over of land and some of water surface areas for recreation and includes of land and of water surface area for wildlife management. This reservoir provides some of shoreline at top of conservation pool. The recreation areas are administered by the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department and the wildlife management area is administered by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Since reservoir releases are primarily for municipal and industrial demands and flood control, the reservoir does not normally experience drastic drawdowns.
The primary fish species include white and smallmouth bass, channel catfish, walleye, bluegill, bullhead, saugeye and crappie.
The lake offers five RV campgrounds, one RV & Tent campground and four tent campgrounds on the southeast and southwest area of Fort Cobb Lake.
Fort Cobb State Park and the wildlife management areas of the lake.
References
External links
Fort Cobb Reservoir on TravelOK.comOfficial Oklahoma Tourism Dept. site
Fort Cobb Dam - Oklahoma
Washita Basin Project - US Bureau of Reclamation*
Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian TerritoryFTCO2 : Ft. Cobb Lake, OK access date=2019-03-18
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Dams completed in 1958
Reservoirs in Oklahoma
Protected areas of Caddo County, Oklahoma
Dams in Oklahoma
United States Bureau of Reclamation dams
Bodies of water of Caddo County, Oklahoma