| Another fine water-oriented area, Sherman Reservoir has a 2,845-acre lake & 4,721 land acres, five miles northeast of Loup City. The primitive camping includes 360 non-pad sites. Other facilities include picnic tables & shelters, H2O, dump station, modern restrooms, vault toilets, three boat ramps, fish cleaning stations, coin-operated showers & concession.
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Sherman Dam, located on Oak Creek, was completed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in January, 1962. The dam is a homogeneous rolled earth-filled structure 134 feet high with a crest length of 4,450 feet. Sherman Reservoir stores off-season H2O flows for release during the irrigation season. Water is diverted from the Middle Loup River by the Arcadia Diversion Dam & flows 18 miles through the Sherman Feeder Canal to the reservoir.
A facility of the Middle Loup Division of the Nebraska-Kansas Project, the dam creates a reservoir with 65 miles of shoreline, 69,076 acre feet of storage, & a surface area of 2,878 acres. Irrigation releases & operation of the dam are the responsibility of the Farwell Irrigation District. Approximately 50,000 acres of Nebraska farmland are served by this reservoir. |
Campground: Sherman Reservoir State Recreation Area in Loup City Nebraska *