Hiwassee Lake
Hiwassee Lake is a man-made reservoir in Cherokee County, North Carolina. It lies along the Hiwassee River created by the Hiwassee Dam which finished construction in 1940. Hiwassee Lake stretches along the river for approximately 22 miles (35 km) to the town of Murphy, North Carolina. It has 180 miles (290 km) of shoreline, a storage capacity of 434,000 acre⋅ft (535,000 dam3), and 205,590 acre⋅ft (253,590 dam3) of flood storage.
| Hiwassee Lake | |
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 Hiwassee Lake is impounded by Hiwassee Dam | |
  Hiwassee Lake  Hiwassee Lake | |
| Location | United States |
| Coordinates | 35.160°N 84.165°W |
| Surface area | 9.3 sq mi (24 km2) |
| Shore length1 | 180 mi (290 km) |
| Settlements | Murphy |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
Hiwassee Lake is 6,000 acres (2,400 ha). Its tailwaters are part of Apalachia Lake.[1] The reservoir's operating level varies by roughly 38 feet (12 m) in a typical year.[2]
References
- Tennessee Valley Authority, The Hiwassee Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Hiwassee Project (Hiwassee Valley Projects Volume 1), Technical Report No. 5 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946), pp. 1-8, 39-40, 211, 230, 242, 248.
- Tennessee Valley Authority, Hiwassee Reservoir. Retrieved: 25 January 2009.
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