Hydroelectric Dams

2,099 dams in the US serve this purpose.

Dam Name	Hazard	Height	Built	Type	State
Beaver Creek Diversion Tuolumne	Low Hazard	54 ft	1989	Gravity	California
Beaver Dam Carroll	High Hazard	228 ft	1963	Concrete	Arkansas
Beaver Mill Pond Dam Columbia	Low Hazard	10 ft	1925	Concrete	New York
Beaverton Gladwin	Significant Hazard	20 ft	1919	Gravity	Michigan
Bedford Amherst	Low Hazard	17 ft	1850	Gravity	Virginia
Beebe Dam Tompkins	Significant Hazard	28 ft	1897	Gravity	New York
Beebee Island Jefferson	Low Hazard	31 ft	1931	Concrete	New York
Beebee Island Diversion Dam Jefferson	Significant Hazard	22 ft	1931	Masonry	New York
Beech River Mill Dam Carroll	High Hazard	14 ft	1851	Concrete	New Hampshire
Belden Forebay Plumas	High Hazard	124 ft	1958	Rockfill	California
Beldens East Addison	Low Hazard	27 ft	1913	Gravity	Vermont
Belding Ionia	Low Hazard	15 ft	1906	Gravity	Michigan
Belfort Lewis	Low Hazard	19 ft	1904	Concrete	New York
Belleville Locks and Dam Wood	Significant Hazard	—	1968	Concrete	West Virginia
Bellevue Mill Dam Eaton	Low Hazard	14 ft	1854	Earth	Michigan
Bellows Falls Cheshire	Low Hazard	48 ft	1907	Concrete	New Hampshire
Beloit Rock	Low Hazard	15 ft	1928	Gravity	Wisconsin
Bend Hydro (Mirrorpond) Deschutes	Significant Hazard	16 ft	1905	Other	Oregon
Bennetts Bridge Oswego	High Hazard	35 ft	1914	Concrete	New York
Bennetts Bridge - Dike B Oswego	High Hazard	13 ft	1914	Earth	New York
Bennetts Bridge - Dike C Oswego	High Hazard	10 ft	1914	Earth	New York
Benton Falls Kennebec	Low Hazard	27 ft	1987	Concrete	Maine
Berrien Springs Dam Berrien	High Hazard	36 ft	1908	Gravity	Michigan
Bethel Mills Windsor	Low Hazard	17 ft	1940	Concrete	Vermont
B. Everett Jordan Dam Chatham	High Hazard	114 ft	1974	Earth	North Carolina
B. F. Sisk Merced	High Hazard	305 ft	1967	Earth	California
Bidwell Bar Canyon Saddle Butte	High Hazard	47 ft	1968	Earth	California
Big Bend Dam Lyman	High Hazard	—	1963	Earth	South Dakota
Big Cliff Dam Marion	High Hazard	131 ft	1954	Gravity	Oregon
Big Creek Dam No. 1 Fresno	High Hazard	170 ft	1917	Concrete	California
Big Creek Dam No. 4 Fresno	Low Hazard	75 ft	1913	Concrete	California
Big Creek Dam No. 5 Fresno	Significant Hazard	60 ft	1921	Concrete	California
Big Creek Dam No. 6 Madera	High Hazard	155 ft	1923	Concrete	California
Big Creek Dam No. 7 Madera	High Hazard	250 ft	1951	Concrete	California
Big Falls Rusk	High Hazard	50 ft	1923	Gravity	Wisconsin
Big Falls Milldam Waupaca	Low Hazard	15 ft	1926	Gravity	Wisconsin
Bigfork Diversion Dam Flathead	High Hazard	22 ft	1910	Gravity	Montana
Big Island Bedford	Low Hazard	15 ft	1850	Stone	Virginia
Big Pine Creek Inyo	High Hazard	14 ft	—	Rockfill	California
Big Plum Creek Dawson	Low Hazard	74 ft	1941	Earth	Nebraska
Big Quinnesec Falls Marinette	High Hazard	77 ft	1949	Concrete	Michigan
Big Quinnesec Falls Marinette	High Hazard	82 ft	1948	Gravity	Wisconsin
Big St Germain Vilas	Low Hazard	7 ft	1923	Gravity	Wisconsin
Billings Oxford	Low Hazard	18 ft	1800	Concrete	Maine
Birch Lake Lake	Low Hazard	7 ft	1922	Rockfill	Minnesota
Biron Wood	High Hazard	24 ft	1937	Gravity	Wisconsin
Biscoe Falls Oxford	Low Hazard	15 ft	1986	Masonry	Maine
Bishop Creek Intake No. 2 Inyo	Significant Hazard	30 ft	1908	Earth	California
Black Brook Polk	Low Hazard	25 ft	1917	Gravity	Wisconsin
Black Brook Clinton	Low Hazard	31 ft	1896	Masonry	New York