McKay Dam - Displaced People
McKay Lake on a 1935 USGS map. McKay Dam displaced homesteaders including the Shaw family, who moved their home and other buildings to a location outside the inundation zone.
About this community
- Dam
- McKay Dam
- River
- McKay Creek
- Established
- 1851
- Inundated
- 1926
Sources
- https://eastoregonian.com/2003/08/26/mckay-reservoir-changed-landscape/
- USGS Historical Topographic Maps.