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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]
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.
According to the 2020 United States census, North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2) of land. [1] [2] North Carolina is divided into 100 counties and contains 551 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. [3]
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.
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 ]
The bridge that connects Lake Lure and Chimney Rock in Lake Lure, N.C. on Saturday, September 29, 2024. For a couple of days, the wreckage left the two communities as isolated as they were a ...
Two North Carolina routes, NC 108 and NC 9, traverse the county as well. NC 108 begins in Rutherfordton and travels west through Columbus and ends at US 176 in Tryon. Oriented north-to-south, NC 9 connects Black Mountain and Lake Lure to Spartanburg and points southeast via Polk County. NC 108 and NC 9 intersect at the unincorporated town of ...
The Flowering Bridge at Lake Lure, which opened in 2013, provides a budding floral walkway for over 18,000 visitors per year. Video footage from Lake Lure shows that the bridge was destroyed by ...