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Owyhee Reservoir. Total capacity. 1,183,300 acre-feet (1.4596 × 10 9 m 3) Owyhee Dam (National ID # OR00582) is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Owyhee River in Eastern Oregon near Adrian, Oregon, United States. Completed in 1932 during the Great Depression, the dam generates electricity and provides irrigation water for several irrigation ...
Type. Wild. Designated. March 30, 2009. The Owyhee River is a tributary of the Snake River located in northern Nevada, southwestern Idaho and southeastern Oregon in the United States. It is 280 miles (450 km) long. [2][4] The river's drainage basin is 11,049 square miles (28,620 km 2) in area, one of the largest subbasins of the Columbia Basin. [5]
Owyhee County (/ oʊˈwaɪ.hiː / oh-WYE-hee) is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,913. [ 1 ] The county seat is Murphy, [ 2 ] and its largest city is Homedale. [ 3 ] In area it is the second-largest county in Idaho, [ 4 ] behind Idaho County.
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The desert is in northern Nevada, southwestern Idaho and southeastern Oregon. It is located on the south edge of the Columbia Plateau southwest of Boise, Idaho, stretching east from the Santa Rosa Range. It has a mean elevation of approximately 5,300 ft (1,600 m). The Owyhee Desert is primarily drained by the tributaries of the Bruneau River ...
Owyhee is located along the northern border of Nevada. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 225.9 square miles (585.1 km 2 ), of which 225.3 square miles (583.5 km 2 ) is land and 0.62 square miles (1.6 km 2 ), or (0.27%, is water.
Owyhee is an unincorporated community in Ada County, Idaho, United States, [1] roughly 14 miles (23 km) south of Boise. [2] Owyhee had a post office 1883–1919. [3]
Owyhee Mountains. The Owyhee Mountains are a mountain range in Owyhee County, Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon. [2] Mahogany Mountain and the associated volcanic craters of the Lake Owyhee volcanic field are in the Owyhee Mountains of Oregon just east of the Owyhee Reservoir on the Owyhee River. [3]