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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... List of lakes of Georgia (U.S. state) C. Coleman Pond; G. Gannet Lake; L. Lake Burton (Georgia)
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.
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 ...
The J. Strom Thurmond Dam is located upstream from Augusta, Georgia. The Thurmond Lake is one of the Southeast's largest and most popular public recreation lakes. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1946 and 1954, but the lake was filled during 1951 and 1952 as part of a flood control, hydropower, and navigation ...
Lake Chatuge is the highest major lake in the state of Georgia. [5] It takes up 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) and is 13 miles (21 km) long. [6][4] The lake is named after an 18th-century Cherokee Native American settlement once located near the dam site. [4][7] The word means “Beautiful” and “Land where the waters meet” (the lake covers the ...
Location of Georgia’s 49 state parks. This is a list of state parks in Georgia. The park system of the US state of Georgia was founded in 1931 with Indian Springs State Park and Vogel State Park. Indian Springs has been operated by the state as a public park since 1825, making it perhaps the oldest state park in the United States. [ 1 ]
List of lakes of Georgia (U.S. state) This page was last edited on 10 July 2023, at 23:46 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
62 mi (100 km) Surface elevation. 1,074 ft (327 m) [1] 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Carters Lake is a man-made reservoir located on the Coosawattee River in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Gilmer and Murray counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the state's deepest lake.