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Lake Lanier. Commission date. 1958; 66 years ago (1958) [3] Annual generation. 250 GWh. Buford Dam is a dam in Buford, Georgia which is located at the southern end of Lake Lanier, [4] a reservoir formed by the construction of the dam in 1956. The dam itself is managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
FIPS code. 13-13688 [4] GNIS feature ID. 0355017 [5] Website. cartersvillega.gov. Cartersville is a city in and the county seat of Bartow County, Georgia, United States; [6] it is located within the northwest edge of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 23,187.
The Brevard Fault Zone is a part of a much larger system of faults at the base of the Appalachian thrust sheet [1] that played a key role in uplifting the Appalachian Mountains. The extent of its role remains uncertain because most of the fault is buried beneath Quaternary sediment. [7] Many studies of the fault come from Grandfather Mountain ...
Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River. The lake encompasses 38,000 acres (15,000 ha) or 59 sq mi (150 km 2) of water, and 692 mi (1,114 ...
Bartow County was created from the Cherokee lands of the Cherokee County territory on December 3, 1832, and named Cass County, after General Lewis Cass (1782–1866), Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, Minister to France and Secretary of State under President James Buchanan, [3] who was instrumental in the removal of Native Americans from the area.
forsythco.com. Forsyth County (/ fɔːrˈsaɪθ / for-SYTHE or / ˈfɔːrsaɪθ / FOR-sythe) is a county in the Northeast region of the U.S. state of Georgia. Suburban and exurban in character, Forsyth County lies within the Atlanta metropolitan area. The county's only incorporated city and county seat is Cumming. [1] At the 2020 census, the ...
An Indiana family set out for a day of tubing and fun on the water ... The group of nine were floating along Dan River in Eden Wednesday evening when they dropped over an 8-foot dam near the Duke ...
Summerour Mound site. The Summerour Mound site (9FO16) is an archaeological site located in Forsyth County, Georgia. It was formerly on a floodplain of the west bank of the Chattahoochee River in northern Georgia. It is now flooded under the Buford Reservoir, also known as Lake Lanier. This mound site, previously unreported, was discovered and ...