Boysen Reservoir

Boysen Reservoir
Boysen Reservoir, 2009
Location of Boysen Reservoir in Wyoming, USA.
Location of Boysen Reservoir in Wyoming, USA.
Boysen Reservoir
Location of Boysen Reservoir in Wyoming, USA.
Location of Boysen Reservoir in Wyoming, USA.
Boysen Reservoir
LocationFremont County, Wyoming, United States
Coordinates43°25′00″N 108°10′33″W / 43.41667°N 108.17583°W / 43.41667; -108.17583
TypeReservoir
Primary inflowsWind River
Primary outflowsWind River
Basin countriesUnited States
Surface elevation4,800 feet (1,463 m)
SettlementsShoshoni

Boysen Reservoir is a reservoir formed by Boysen Dam, an earth-fill dam on the Wind River in the central part of the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is near the town of Shoshoni in Fremont County. The dam was constructed between 1947 and 1952 at the mouth of Wind River Canyon, just upstream from a previous dam that had been built by Asmus Boysen in 1908 on land he had leased from the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes. The dam and much of the reservoir are physically located on the Wind River Indian Reservation.