Carson River, Fallon, Nevada. County/parish: Churchill.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 25, 1981. NRIS 81000380.
Part of Newlands Reclamation TR (NRIS 64000529).
1 contributing structure.
The Carson River Diversion Dam on the Carson River near Fallon, Nevada was built in 1904–05. It is a 21-foot (6.4 m) tall, 241-foot (73 m) long "concrete gate structure" with 21 "double leaf slide 5-by-10-foot (1.5 m × 3.0 m) spillway sections.
It diverts water for use in agricultural irrigation in hundreds of farms within the Newlands Projects area. It is located five miles northeast of the Lahontan Dam on the Carson River.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63816142