Copan Dam

Construction of the earthen dam began in 1972 and was completed in 1983 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with a height of 73 feet (22 m) and a length of 7,730 feet (2,360 m) long at its crest.

[1] It impounds Little Caney River for flood control and municipal drinking water.

The dam is owned and operated by the Corps of Engineers.

The reservoir it creates, Copan Lake, has a water surface of 7.6 square miles (20 km2), has a maximum capacity of 338,000 acre-feet (417,000,000 m3), and normal capacity of 43,400 acre-feet (53,500,000 m3).

The wildlife area is part of an overall project with the Copan Reservoir, located in Oklahoma.