Dams in Ziebach County, South Dakota
108Total Dams
3High Hazard
3Significant
Dam Safety in Ziebach County, South Dakota
Ziebach County has 108 dams tracked in the National Inventory of Dams. Of these, 3 are classified as high hazard — meaning failure would probably cause loss of human life. Another 3 carry a significant hazard classification. Currently, 3 dams have a condition assessment of poor or unsatisfactory.
The average dam in Ziebach County is 72 years old. The most common purpose is fire protection, stock, or small fish pond. The tallest dam is Buffalo Lake Road Dam 1 at 95 ft.
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| Dam | Hazard | Condition | Height (ft) | Purpose | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarence Smith Dam | High | Poor | 25 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1958 |
| Bud Young Section 3 | High | Poor | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1957 |
| Bednar Dam | High | Poor | 19 | Recreation | 1933 |
| Buffalo Lake Road Dam 1 | Significant | 95 | Recreation | 1961 | |
| Dragest Dam | Significant | Fair | 32 | Other | 1977 |
| V. Miller No.2 | Significant | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| Hickman No.2 | Low | 32 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| Collins Dam | Low | 32 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 2000 | |
| Viet No.1 | Low | 30 | Irrigation | 1962 | |
| Pothast Dam | Low | 30 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 2003 | |
| Hickman No.1 | Low | 29 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1963 | |
| E. Hunt | Low | 29 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1969 | |
| Viet No.2 | Low | 29 | Irrigation | 1962 | |
| Tribe No.11 | Low | 28 | Water Supply | 1960 | |
| Jack Hunt | Low | 28 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| Tribe No.4 | Low | 28 | Water Supply | 1961 | |
| W. Holmes No.1 | Low | 28 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1963 | |
| Sammons No.2 | Low | 27 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1958 | |
| Mraz Bros | Low | 27 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| M. Aspach | Low | 27 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1959 | |
| W. Holmes No.3 | Low | 27 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| Mandernach & Carlson | Low | 26 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1947 | |
| M. Matthews | Low | 26 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1941 | |
| Baxter No.2 | Low | 26 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| Tribe No.7 | Low | 26 | Water Supply | 1960 | |
| Clavel No.4 | Low | 26 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1962 | |
| Zorc Bros. No.2 | Low | 26 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1962 | |
| Baxter No.1 | Low | 25 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1944 | |
| Mcclellan Bros. | Low | 25 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1939 | |
| Jack Freeman | Low | 25 | Irrigation | 1960 | |
| Roy Veit No.4 | Low | 25 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1972 | |
| Mandernach And Carlson 4 | Low | 25 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| R. Keckley No.2 | Low | 25 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1962 | |
| Mitchell Dam | Low | 25 | Fish and Wildlife Pond | 1978 | |
| Mandernach & Carlson No. | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| M. Schatz No.1 | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| Mandernach And Carlson 3 | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1959 | |
| R. Keckley No.1 | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1967 | |
| Mandernach And Carlson 6 | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1952 | |
| Jack Freeman Dam | Low | 24 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1961 | |
| Budahl | Low | 23 | Irrigation | 1959 | |
| Clavel No.1 | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1947 | |
| F. Miller | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1938 | |
| Tribe No.8 | Low | 23 | Water Supply | 1959 | |
| Tribe No.2 | Low | 23 | Water Supply | 1956 | |
| Mandernach And Carlson 2 | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1941 | |
| Tribe No.10 | Low | 23 | Water Supply | 1957 | |
| Mandernach & Carlson No. 9 | Low | 23 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| M. Mraz | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| Clavel No.3 | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| O. Drageset No.2 | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| K. Dorsey No.2 | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| W. Holmes No.2 | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| K. Dorsey No.1 | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1966 | |
| R. Bierman No.2 | Low | 22 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1958 | |
| Johnson | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1953 | |
| Sammons | Low | 21 | Irrigation | 1967 | |
| Tribe No.6 | Low | 21 | Water Supply | 1947 | |
| G. Lund | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1960 | |
| L. Woodward | Low | 21 | Irrigation | 1961 | |
| T. Trent No.1 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| Tribe No.9 | Low | 21 | Water Supply | 1959 | |
| V. Miller No.1 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| R. Fields No.4 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| Robert Meyer No.1 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| Robert Meyer No.2 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| Walter Miller No.1 | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1961 | |
| Herron Dam | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1939 | |
| B. Silverman Dam | Low | 21 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1940 | |
| Baxter No.3 | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| Circle Eagle | Low | 20 | Water Supply | 1939 | |
| Tribe No.1 | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| Tribe No.3 | Low | 20 | Water Supply | 1952 | |
| Robert Meyer No.3 | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| B. Butler No.1 | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| Wall Dam | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| M. Schatz No.1 | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1938 | |
| C Little Wounded | Low | 20 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1949 | |
| Sargent Dam | Low | 20 | Water Supply | 1937 | |
| Carmichael | Low | 19 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1959 | |
| Matter | Low | 18 | Recreation | 1938 | |
| A. Dosch | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1938 | |
| Hulm | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1956 | |
| O. Drageset No.1 | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| R. Fields No.5 | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1939 | |
| M. Kelley No.1 | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1940 | |
| Olsen Dam | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1995 | |
| R. Fields No.2 | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1952 | |
| Glad Valley | Low | 18 | Recreation | 1938 | |
| M. Schatz No.2 | Low | 18 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| C. Bennett | Low | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1942 | |
| R. Bierman | Low | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1948 | |
| Zorc Bros. No.3 | Low | 17 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1950 | |
| L. Barnica | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1938 | |
| H. Schuchhardt | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1942 | |
| B. Butler No.3 | Low | 16 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1951 | |
| A. Herron No.1 | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1940 | |
| C. Steen | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1941 | |
| Mandernach And Carlson 5 | Low | 15 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1961 | |
| A. Drageset No.4 | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1946 | |
| C. Birkland | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1944 | |
| O. Drageset | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1955 | |
| J. Gebhart No.1 | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1957 | |
| R. Fields No.1 | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| B. Butler No.2 | Low | 14 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1954 | |
| C. Mraz | Low | 13 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1951 | |
| Marple | Low | 12 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1938 | |
| Clavel No.2 | Low | 12 | Fire Protection, Stock, Or Small Fish Pond | 1951 |