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Lake Norman is a man-made lake that is 33.6 miles (54.1 km) long, 9 miles (14 km) wide, and has 520 miles (840 km) of shoreline. Its average depth is 33.5 feet (10.2 m), but at its outlet it reaches a depth of 110 feet (34 m). The lake is mainly underlain by interfingered igneous and metamorphic bedrock.
Lake Norman State Park, formerly Duke Power State Park, is a 1,942-acre (7.86 km 2) [1] North Carolina state park near Troutman, Iredell County, North Carolina in the United States. The park is on the northern shore of Lake Norman at the mouth of Hicks Creek. The park is open for year-round recreation including, boating, fishing, water skiing ...
704/980. FIPS code. 37-36511. GNIS feature ID. 2806991 [2] Lake Norman of Iredell is a census-designated place (CDP) in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [2] The community is in the southwestern corner of Iredell County and consists of several peninsulas extending into Lake ...
August 27, 2024 at 12:45 PM. A developer must open part of the shoreline of its planned Lake Norman waterfront community in Mooresville to the public, a government panel ruled this week. Lake ...
FIPS code. 37-36511 [3] GNIS feature ID. 2403201 [2] Lake Norman of Catawba is a census-designated place (CDP) in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 11,395 at the 2020 census up from 7,411 at the 2010 census. [4] It is part of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Providing relief at the Cowan's Ford Dam because of above average rain fall in the spring and summer of 2013. Cowans Ford Hydroelectric Station is a hydroelectric power plant and dam located near Huntersville, North Carolina, approximately 20 miles north of Charlotte on Lake Norman. It is the largest conventional hydro station owned by Duke ...
McGuire Nuclear Station. The McGuire Nuclear Station is a nuclear power plant located about 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, on the state's largest lake, Lake Norman. It is a 32,500-acre (13,200 ha) lake created in 1963 by Duke Power for the Cowans Ford Hydroelectric Station. The McGuire units use the lake's water for ...
North Carolina covers 53,819 square miles (139,391 km 2) and is 503 miles (810 km) wide by 150 miles (241 km) long. The physical characteristics of the state vary from the summits of the Smoky Mountains, an altitude of near seven thousand feet (2,130 m) in the west, sloping eastward to sea level along the coast and beaches of the Atlantic Ocean.