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 districts in Oregon and neighboring Idaho. At the time of completion it was the tallest dam of its type in the world (it was surpassed about two years later).
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