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Kerr Lake State Recreation Area is a North Carolina state park in Vance and Warren counties, North Carolina, in the United States. Located north of Henderson near the North Carolina- Virginia border, it includes 3,376 acres (13.66 km 2 ) [ 1 ] of woodlands along the shores of the 50,000-acre (202 km 2 ) man-made Kerr Lake .
The John H. Kerr Reservoir (often called Kerr Lake in North Carolina and Bugg's Island Lake in Virginia) [1] is a reservoir along the border of the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the John H. Kerr Dam across the Roanoke River between 1947 and 1952 to produce hydroelectricity as well as ...
Carolina Beach State Park is a North Carolina state park in New Hanover County, North Carolina.It covers 761 acres (3.08 km 2) on Pleasure Island. [1] The state owns 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of the park in fee simple, and the remainder of park land is leased from the Department of the Army.
Carolina Beach State Park: Highlights : Sugarloaf Dune is a 50-foot dune that once served as a navigational marker for river pilots, NC Parks says . The park also has three limesink ponds that ...
Jones Lake State Park: Coastal Plain Bladen [2] 1,669 acres (6.75 km 2) [5] 1939 [2] Open The park surrounds Jones State Lake and Salters State Lake, both of which are largely undeveloped Carolina Bay lakes. Until 1965, it was one of two parks open to Black people. Lake James State Park: Mountains McDowell, Burke [2] 3,743 acres (15.15 km 2) [5 ...
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Chiggers carrying bacteria that can cause a deadly kind of typhus never before found in the U.S. have been located in North Carolina. Researchers from N.C. State University and UNC-Greensboro ...
The island, which is undeveloped and accessible only by boat, is a component of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve and a North Carolina State Natural Area. [1] [2] It lies south of Wrightsville Beach, separated by Masonboro Inlet, and north of Carolina Beach, separated by Carolina Beach Inlet.