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The world's largest beaver dam is in Alberta, Canada in Wood Buffalo National Park. It measures 13 hockey rinks wide. In Canada that is a measurement. Smiley4
To use an American system it is as big as 8 Statues of Liberty.
It holds 92,000 dump trucks of water.

It is so big it was visible on satellite images. That is how it was found. It is so isolated that it would takes days to hike there through wetlands, muskeg and thick boreal forest. 

https://dailyhive.com/canada/alberta-largest-beaver-dam

That is a very isolated area. Undisturbed beavers must have just kept making their dam bigger and bigger.
I wonder how old it is and how many generations of beavers have been working on it.