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Lake Waccamaw is a fresh water lake located in Columbus County in North Carolina.It is the largest of the natural Carolina Bay lakes. [2] Although bay trees (Magnolia virginiana L., Gordonia lasianthus Ellis, and Persea) are present within many Carolina Bays, [3] the term "bay" does not refer to the trees but comes instead from an early science publication by Glenn (1895), who used the word ...
Lake Waccamaw is a 9,000-acre (3,600 ha) freshwater lake around and on which is held the annual free fitness event, Take the Lake. Participants may either walk the 15 miles (24 km) around the lake, paddle 14 miles (23 km) around, bike 12 miles (19 km) and walk 3 miles (5 km) around, or swim 4 miles (6 km) across the lake, all on Labor Day weekend.
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz . The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
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The following is a partial list of named, but unincorporated, communities in the state of North Carolina. To be listed, the unincorporated community should either be, a census-designated place (CDP) or a place with at least a few commercial businesses. A crossroads is not necessarily considered an unincorporated "community". Former incorporated ...
Lake Phelps is North Carolina's second largest natural lake. It has a surface area of 16,600 acres (67 km 2), [2] and is located primarily in Washington County on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula between the Albemarle Sound and the Pamlico Sound. The easternmost part of the lake extends into Tyrrell County.
The water is regulated by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Duke Energy Progress owns the land surrounding the lake up to the 420-foot (130 m) above-sea-level mark. The lake covers 3,750 acres (1,520 ha), containing about 25 billion US gallons (95,000,000 m 3) of water, with 120 miles (190 km) of shoreline.
The Tuckertown Reservoir is the reservoir formed by the Tuckertown Dam at the North end of Badin Lake and the High Rock Dam at the bottom of High Rock Lake in the Uwharrie Lakes Region in the U.S. state of North