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Lake Lure is a town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. [1] In 2020 the town population was 1,365. Lake Lure was incorporated in 1927, and acquired the lake after which it is named in 1965.
This company funded dam construction on the Broad River which produced the lake after which the town is named. [3] The dam took two years to build and Lake Lure was finally impounded and filled by 1927. [4] At ordinary water levels, Lake Lure covers approximately 720 acres (2.9 km 2) and has a shoreline of approximately 27 miles (43 km). [4]
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
The area at risk from the Lake Lure dam failure is highlighted on this map from Google Earth. Residents in the surrounding neighborhoods were ordered to evacuate Friday morning.
The Flowering Bridge at Lake Lure, which opened in 2013, provides a budding floral walkway for over 18,000 visitors per year.
This is an incomplete list of dams starting at Lake Lure and moving downstream North Carolina. Lake Lure; Cliffside Steam Station (Duke Energy) on the Border of Rutherford and Cleveland Counties. South Carolina. Gaston Shoals Dam ; Cherokee Falls; Ninety Nine Islands Dam adjacent to the abandoned Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant; Dam and canal at ...
LAKE LURE, N.C. – Authorities went house-to-house urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains to evacuate Friday after officials warned the barrier ...
Rutherford County is a county in the southwestern area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census , the population was 64,444. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Rutherfordton . [ 2 ]