Spanning the border of Nevada and Arizona, Hoover Dam was completed in 1935. It regulates river flow, provides flood control and provides water storage supplying water to portions of California, Nevada, Arizona and Mexico. It can produce some of the largest quantities of electricity in the U.S., generating about four billion kilowatt-hours of energy annually.

Standing as high as a 60 story building (726 feet), Hoover Dam is the tallest solid concrete dam in the western hemisphere.

The top of the dam stretches for 1,244 feet across the Black Canyon. The dam is 660 feet thick at its base, wide enough for back-to-back football fields.

Hoover Dam weighs 6.6 million tons. There is enough concrete in the dam to build a 3-inch thick, 4-foot wide sidewalk around the earth at the equator.

Hoover Dam has been named one of the Top Ten Construction Achievements of the 20th Century, one of the Seven Civil Engineering Wonders of the Modern World, and a Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium.

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