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440 ft (130 m) Surface elevation. 1,703 ft (519 m) Fontana Lake is a reservoir impounded by Fontana Dam on the Little Tennessee River, and is located in Graham and Swain counties in North Carolina. The lake forms part of the southern border of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the northern border of part of the Nantahala National Forest.
The Tuckasegee River (variant spellings include Tuckaseegee and Tuckaseigee) [1] flows entirely within western North Carolina. It begins its course in Jackson County below Cullowhee at the confluence of Panthertown and Greenland creeks. It flows in a northwesterly direction into Swain County, where the Oconaluftee flows into it before the ...
Fontana Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Little Tennessee River in Swain and Graham counties, North Carolina, United States. The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to satisfy the skyrocketing electricity demands in the Tennessee Valley to support the aluminum industry at the height of World War II; it also provided electricity to a ...
Cheoah Dam. / 35.45000°N 83.93611°W / 35.45000; -83.93611. The Cheoah Dam is a hydroelectric dam located in Graham and Swain counties, North Carolina, on the Little Tennessee River between river miles 51 and 52. The Cheoah Development consists of a dam and powerhouse, the first of several constructed by the Tallassee Power Company ...
The Hazel Creek embayment along Fontana Lake, near Cable Branch. Hazel Creek flows southwest from its source near the summit of Silers Bald to its mouth along the Fontana impoundment of the Little Tennessee River, a journey of roughly 18 miles (29 km). The creek drains the area between Welch Ridge to the east and Jenkins Trail Ridge to the west.
NC 143 at Stecoah Gap in North Carolina; NC 28 in Fontana Dam, North Carolina; U.S. Route 441/ SR 71 at Newfound Gap along the North Carolina/Tennessee state line; SR 32 at Davenport Gap along the North Carolina/Tennessee state line; I-40 along the North Carolina/Tennessee state line; NC 209/US 25/US 70 in Hot Springs, North Carolina
March 4, 1994. Elizabeth City Water Plant is a historic municipal water plant located at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. The complex includes the contributing Elizabeth City Water Plant Building, Coagulation Basin (1926), Raw Water Pump House (c. 1935), the Circular Finished Water Reservoir (1926), and the Raw Water Reservoir ...
Little Tennessee Watershed Association. The Little Tennessee Watershed Association ( LTWA) is a conservation organization formed in 1993 in Franklin, NC to protect and restore the health and waters of the Little Tennessee River and its tributaries upstream of the Fontana reservoir through monitoring, education, habitat restoration, and citizen ...