Lake Overholser Sunset
by Jonas Wingfield
Title
Lake Overholser Sunset
Artist
Jonas Wingfield
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The lake covers approximately 1,500 acres and was constructed in 1919 to provide water to a treatment plant. According to USGS, its caoacity is 17,100 acre feet. The average depth is 6 feet and the maximum depth is only 13 feet.
U.S. Route 66, "The Mother Road", was situated along the North shore of Lake Overholser from 1926 to 1958. A 1958 Route 66 improvement project created a new alignment for the highway that relocated the roadbed about 1/4 mile North of the lake. The original 1926 section of Route 66 still exists and was renamed North Overholser Drive. It runs south of the Stonebridge Lake Estates and Ramsey Lake and is considered one of the most scenic sections of the original Route 66.
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September 9th, 2015
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