Largest Reservoirs in Arkansas

Arkansas has 1216 dams with recorded storage capacity. The largest is Bull Shoals Dam with 5,408,000 acre-feet of maximum storage. One acre-foot equals about 326,000 gallons — enough to supply roughly two households for a year.

#	Dam	County	Max Storage (acre-ft)	Height (ft)	Purpose	Year
1	Bull Shoals Dam	Baxter	5,408,000	282	Flood Risk Reduction	1951
2	Blakely Mountain Dam	Garland	3,760,700	240	Flood Risk Reduction	1953
3	Greers Ferry Dam - Saddle Dike 2	Cleburne	2,844,000	72	Flood Risk Reduction	1962
4	Norfork Dam	Baxter	1,983,000	248	Flood Risk Reduction	1944
5	Beaver Dam - Saddle Dike 3	Carroll	1,952,000	229	Flood Risk Reduction	1963
6	Millwood Dam - Okay Levee	Howard	1,854,930	91	Flood Risk Reduction	1966
7	Degray Dam - Saddle Dike	Clark	1,377,100	243	Flood Risk Reduction	1969
8	Degray Dam	Clark	1,377,100	98	Flood Risk Reduction	1969
9	Narrows Dam	Pike	600,600	196	Flood Risk Reduction	1950
10	Dequeen Dam	Sevier	370,600	160	Flood Risk Reduction	1977
11	Nimrod Dam	Perry	336,000	103	Flood Risk Reduction	1942
12	Blue Mountain Dam	Yell	258,000	115	Flood Risk Reduction	1947
13	Carpenter	Garland	235,500	110	Hydroelectric	1932
14	Gillham Dam	Howard	221,800	160	Flood Risk Reduction	1975
15	Lake Maumelle Dam	Pulaski	220,000	67	Water Supply	1957
16	Dierks Dam	Sevier	159,500	153	Flood Risk Reduction	1975
17	Ozark-jetta Taylor Lock And Dam	Franklin	148,400	100	Navigation	1969
18	Lake Fort Smith Dam	Poinsett	140,000	212	Water Supply	1936
19	Lake Erling Dam	Lafayette	138,250	43	Water Supply	1956
20	Wilbur D. Mills Lock And Dam	Arkansas	133,200	68	Navigation	1967
21	Murray Lock And Dam	Pulaski	108,500	77	Navigation	1969
22	H.k. Thatcher Lock And Dam	Union	108,000	80	Navigation	1983
23	Lock And Dam No 8	Union	85,000	25	Navigation	1911
24	Emmett Sanders Lock And Dam	Jefferson	77,000	46	Navigation	1968
25	Felsenthal Lock And Dam	Union	76,700	105	Navigation	1978
26	Arthur V. Ormond Lock And Dam	Conway	70,400	57	Navigation	1969
27	Col. Charles D. Maynard Lock And Dam	Jefferson	68,500	61	Navigation	1968
28	Lake Columbia Dam	Columbia	66,063	40	Water Supply	1986
29	Lake Winona Dam	Saline	63,264	115	Water Supply	1938
30	David D. Terry Lock And Dam	Pulaski	59,600	51	Navigation	1968
31	James W. Trimble Lock And Dam	Sebastian	59,100	51	Navigation	1969
32	Remmel	Hot Spring	57,260	75	Hydroelectric	1925
33	Joe Hardin Lock And Dam	Jefferson	50,400	45	Navigation	1968
34	Lake Chicot Dam North	Chicot	45,080	22	Recreation	1942
35	Lee Creek	Crawford	43,000	48	Water Supply	1992
36	Poteau River Wid Site 15	Scott	41,058	77	Recreation	1971
37	Lake Conway Dam	Faulkner	40,200	16	Water Supply	1950
38	Lock And Dam No 6	Union	37,700	26	Navigation	1913
39	Toad Suck Ferry Lock And Dam	Faulkner	37,300	58	Navigation	1969
40	Lake Monticello Dam	Drew	35,804	89	Fish and Wildlife Pond	1993
41	Ditch Bayou Station-lake Chicot	Chicot	34,000	12	Flood Risk Reduction	1980
42	Balboa Lake Dam	Garland	33,937	49	Recreation	1986
43	Norton Dam	White	31,014	21	Fish and Wildlife Pond	2003
44	Lake Poinsett Dam	Poinsett	29,500	48	Recreation	1967
45	Upper Petit Jean Wid Site 9	Logan	29,200	84	Water Supply	1978
46	Peckerwood Lake Dam	Prairie	28,000	8	Irrigation	1942
47	Des Arc Bayou Wid Site 3	White	25,425	128	Recreation	1979
48	Lower White Oak Dam	Ouachita	24,675	30	Recreation	1959
49	Little Flint Creek Dam	Benton	24,400	115	Water Supply	1977
50	Brewer Lake	Conway	23,500	83	Water Supply	1983

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