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Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration .
Kentucky has both the largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi in water volume (Lake Cumberland) and surface area (Kentucky Lake). Kentucky Lake's 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline, 160,300 acres (64,900 hectares) of water surface, and 4,008,000 acre-feet (4.9 billion cubic meters) of flood storage are the most of any lake in the TVA ...
Byrdstown is located at (36.572585, -85.137088 The town is situated in a hilly area on the Highland Rim, a few miles south of the Kentucky state line. Byrdstown lies south of the Wolf River, north of the Obey River, and east of Dale Hollow Lake, where the two rivers converge.
Kentucky Lake is a major navigable reservoir along the Tennessee River in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was created in 1944 by the Tennessee Valley Authority 's impounding of the Tennessee River via Kentucky Dam for flood control and hydroelectric power. [2] The 160,309-acre (649 km 2) lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the ...
Interstate 40 in Tennessee. Interstate 40 (I-40) is part of the Interstate Highway System that runs 2,556.61 miles (4,114.46 km) from Barstow, California, to Wilmington, North Carolina. [1] The highway crosses Tennessee from west to east, from the Mississippi River at the Arkansas border to the Blue Ridge Mountains at the North Carolina border ...
List of lakes of Kentucky. Kentucky Lake. Kincaid Lake. Martins Fork Lake. Paintsville Lake. Shanty Hollow Lake. The following is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the state of Kentucky in the United States. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Lake Barkley (extends into Tennessee)
Cadiz (/ ˈ k eɪ d iː z,-d ɪ z / ⓘ KAY-deez, -diz) [4] is a home rule-class city [5] and the county seat of Trigg County, Kentucky, United States. [6] The population was 2,540 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Clarksville metropolitan area. Cadiz is a historic town located close to Lake Barkley east of the Land Between the Lakes ...
Tipton County, Tennessee. Tipton County is a county located on the western end of the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Mississippi Delta region. As of the 2020 census, the population was 60,970. [2] Its county seat is Covington. [3] Tipton County, founded in 1823, is part of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area.