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Watauga Lake, located east of Elizabethton, Tennessee, is the local name of the Watauga Reservoir created by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) with the 1948 completion of the TVA Watauga Dam. [ 1 ]
Nearly 3 miles below Watauga Dam, on the Horseshoe section of the Watauga River, is the TVA Wilbur Dam, which forms a much smaller but very deep reservoir known as Wilbur Lake. TVA releases approximately 130 cubic feet per second (3.7 m 3 /s) of discharged water back into the Watauga River during the summer months. [ 6 ]
Watauga Dam is located 37 miles (60 km) above the mouth of the Watauga, at a point where the westward-flowing river veers north to slice a water gap through the middle of Iron Mountain. The dam is about 5 miles (8.0 km) downstream from Butler, Tennessee , and 10 miles (16 km) upstream from Elizabethton.
Bass Lake, also known as Cone Lake, [1] is a 22-acre (8.9 ha) man-made lake or reservoir located in Blowing Rock, Watauga County, North Carolina, United States.The Moses H. Cone estate, also called Flat Top Manor, is on a hillside overlooking the lake, whose elevation is 3,563 feet (1,086 m). [1]
Watauga County (/ w ə ˈ t ɔː ɡ ə / wuh-TAW-guh) [1] is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,086. [2] Its county seat and largest community is Boone.
Roan Creek is a tributary of the Watauga River that rises near the border between the U.S. states of Tennessee and North Carolina. Its source is located along the slopes of Snake Mountain near Trade in Johnson County, Tennessee. From its source, Roan Creek flows north, then turns west around the northern end of Stone Mountain.
Watauga, Tennessee; Watauga, Texas; Bodies of Water. Watauga Lake in Tennessee; The Watauga River in North Carolina and Tennessee; Ships. USS Watauga, a steam frigate planned for the United States Navy during the American Civil War that was never built; Other. The Watauga Association, a pre-revolutionary autonomous American government
The Elk River is a large stream in the North Carolina High Country and East Tennessee. [1] The headwaters begin from the Northwestern slopes of Peak Mountain in Avery County, North Carolina and end at the Watauga River in Carter County, Tennessee.