The Palo Verde Dam (officially called the Palo Verde Diversion Dam) is a diversion dam on the Colorado River in La Paz County, Arizona, and Riverside County, California, in the southwestern United States, approximately 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Blythe.

Construction of the dam, which began in 1956 and ended in 1958, was authorized by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

The dam was constructed to raise the water level of the river because the upstream Hoover and Davis Dams blocked sediment, causing significant degradation of the riverbed that hampered water diversion.

[1] The dam diverts about 1,800 cubic feet (51 m3) of water per second to irrigate 121,000 acres (490 km2) of the Palo Verde Valley and mesa lands on the west side of the Colorado River in California.

The control house of the dam is found immediately upstream of the headworks area.