Lake Clark Dam – Ennis TX

City:
Ennis, TX

Site Type:
Dams, Infrastructure and Utilities

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Completed:
1940

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The works Progress Administration created Lake Clark by building an 1800-foot compacted earth filled dam on Little Mustang Creek west of Ennis, Texas. The project number was 65-1-66-165.

Source notes

Note cards on historical photographs from the National Archives and Records Administration digitized by the Historic Sites and Structures Program, Texas State Parks (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department): (https://www.flickr.com/photos/141324854@N04/albums/72157666543460231/with/26084250242/), accessed April 18, 2018.

Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on April 19, 2018.

Location Info


Lake Clark
Ennis, TX Ellis County

Location notes: West side of Ennis, Texas Coordinates: 32.3229, -96.6590

Coordinates: 32.3256982, -96.65913469999998

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