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The city of Blue Ridge is located south of the center of Fannin County at (34.868344, -84.320991 The city sits on the divide between the Tennessee River watershed to the north (via the Toccoa River ) and the Alabama River to the south (via Crooked Log Creek, the Ellijay River , and several downstream rivers).
Blue Ridge Lake, created in the 1930s by the completion of Blue Ridge Dam (now operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority), spans a substantial stretch of the river in the northern part of the county. The vast majority of Fannin County is located in the Ocoee River sub-basin of the Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee basin.
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands range. The mountain range is located in the Eastern United States and extends 550 miles southwest from southern Pennsylvania through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. [1]
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States in North America.The Golden Isles of Georgia lie off the coast of the state. The main geographical features include mountains such as the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians in the northwest, the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northeast, the Piedmont plateau in the central portion of the state and Coastal Plain in the south.
It’s one of the all-time best mountain towns in the state.
Blue Ridge Lake is a reservoir in Fannin County, in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. The reservoir encompasses 3,300-acre (1,300 ha) of water, and a "full summer pool" of approximately 1,686 feet (514 m) above mean sea level .
The Blue Ridge Mountains as seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway near Mount Mitchell. The following is a list of mountains constituting the Blue Ridge , a mountain range stretching about 450 miles from Pennsylvania to Georgia in the USA.
Rocks of the eastern Blue Ridge in Georgia were deposited in a marginal basin basin between the Paleozoic North American continent and a volcanic arc terrane in the Iapetus Ocean. [7] Rocks of the central Blue Ridge record deep burial and metamorphic conditions attributed to the Taconic orogeny during the Middle-Late Ordovician, but rocks of ...