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Wiggins Ozark Camp was located just outside of Lesterville, Missouri, population 164.My memory (all of this is from my memory) says that Lesterville is in Reynolds County, the county which adjoins Iron County, whose county seat is Ironton, about twenty miles away and the local big city. There were two other camps in the vicinity that kids from St. Louis attended, Taum Sauk and Zoe.
I looked up Wiggins Ozark Camp on the web, and found only one entry,on a map of Lesterville MO, prepared by the federal agency.
It shows, among many other things, the Wiggins Ozark Camp Dam. I think it is this dam that blocked the water in the man-made lower lake, and I think that there was a connection between the lake and the pool below. I have no idea what one would find there now.
Wiggins Ozark Camp Dam, southeast MissouriWiggins Ozark Camp Dam is on a tributary of Mid Fork Black River in Reynolds County, Missouri and is used for recreation purposes. Construction was completed in 1960. Its normal surface area is 16 acres. It is owned by William H. Wenzel.
Wiggins Ozark Camp Dam is of earthen construction.
Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park
Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park is a Missouri state park on the East Fork Black River consisting of 8550 acres in Reynolds County. The park is jointly administired with adjoining Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, and together the two parks cover 16050 acres in the St. Francois Mountains region of the Missouri Ozarks. The term "shut-in" refers to a place where the river's breadth is limited by hard rock that is resistant to erosion. In these shut-ins the river cascades in many rivulets over and around igneous rocks worn smooth over many eons. It is used by park visitors as a natural water park when the water is not so high as to be dangerous.
Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station
Electrical generators are turned by water flowing from a reservoir on top of Proffit Mountain into a lower reservoir on the East Fork of the Black River. The generators and turbines at river level are reversible, and at night the excess electricity available on the power grid is used to pump water back to the mountaintop.
The Taum Sauk plant is notable in that it is a pure pump-back operation – there is no natural primary flow available for generation, unlike most other pumped storage sites. It was among the largest such projects when it was built. Construction of the Taum Sauk plant began in 1960 and operation began in 1963.
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Comments (4)
Bob-RJ Burkhart said
at 3:37 pm on Feb 20, 2019
Peoples without a shared sense of place like #MotherEarth
usually could care less about it;
then, their collective behaviors reflect that careless attitude!
Bob-RJ Burkhart
burkhartmnus@gmail.com
EcoTrekUSA EcoFuturist(UI)
Bob-RJ Burkhart said
at 10:48 am on Feb 20, 2019
More 2019 WOC-RetroSpective ...
<b> Wiggins Ozark Camp SmaARTmeme:</b> <i>
Prepared minds favor chance</i>
During a transition week-end without campers, our stable manager shot & killed a wild pig. Then, he cooked on a spit over coals from a wood fire. That event may have been a precursor for my subsequent USNR-A Midwest Mariner shore duty in Hawaii ...
Track & Field Coach Emil Wiggins was my KHS-1961 Physics Teacher. Since I'd earned my Red Cross Life Guard Certification, I also helped guide Jon Boat Float Trips with an overnight sandbar camping experience for older boys (12-14).
<i>>>
Wig's standing order for camp counselors was: Have fun ...
But there's no law enforcement or emergency services on call.
So, ring back everyone you left with having all their parts intact!
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<b>Sidebar:</b>
Six years later (Apr-1967), I reported aboard USS Cimarron (AO-22) as a NAVOCS (A-703) Gunnery Officer & Asst. Deck Department Head. I repurposed Wig's savvy advice as CIM's UNREP Cargo Deck Safety Officer.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cimarron_(AO-22)#Vietnam_War"><b>USS CIMarron-WestPac Journal></b></a>
<b><i>thinkLets / Wiggins Ozark Camp -
FutureThought - PBworks</i></b>
<a href="http://uturethought.pbworks.com/Wiggins-Ozark-Camp"><b>Show-Me / MO-Ozarks GeoVenturing</b></a>
Tour de Cure in United States | Cycling Social Network |
MapMyRIDE; Wiggins Ozark Camp Dam, southeast Missouri.
Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park; Taum Sauk ...
Bob-RJ Burkhart said
at 10:47 am on Feb 20, 2019
2019 RetroSpective on WOC-Lessons Learned ...
As a Kirkwood School District (R-7) Student, I went to BSA Camp Irondale near Ironton, MO while pursuing a <b>1959 Eagle Scout BSA Rank</b> ...
I was Wiggins Ozark Camp Pool Manager with Pam Durham.
Her Mom had been our Nipher-JHS Newspaper Advisor
when I was The CALL's 9th Grade Sports Editor (1958).
We did Polar Bear Plunges after cleaning & refilling the pool from natural spring water about every other week.
Our pool attracted nasty horse flies from the barn & stable, so I put a bounty on horse flies.
Collect 50 dead critters & your crew / posse can toss me into the frigid pool ...
After that quota got filled, I wrapped ice-cubes in my towel and prepared to get dunked ...
Upon surfacing to the glee of our campers, I claimed I'd found ice-cubed forming in the pool's drain grate!
Wig was also an avid fly fisherman using his stocked bass ponds; but, catfish & snapping turtles competed for limited food sources. So, I used a camp canoe to set & patrol trot lines in the lower stormwater retention pool. If I cleaned the catfish, our camp kitchen cooks would prepare serve them for lunch. But, when I caught & cleaned a snapping turtle, the cooks advised I have to use an outdoor campfire to make turtle stew1
Bob-RJ Burkhart said
at 5:59 pm on Sep 3, 2017
>> Kyle added: "It was a dream to run the river with. We floated on the Bryant Creek and caught smallmouth, and ran limb lines with the trolling motor for catfish. The trolling motor pushed it easily. This boat is great. I repeatedly over corrected it while fishing, all it takes is a little tip of the paddle to keep it straight. It is a lot easier than a canoe to steer." <<
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