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The opening of Guntersville Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1939 turned Guntersville into a peninsula, and created tourism and recreation opportunities on the new lake. Many commercial buildings were constructed after World War II until 1964, in contrast to many small-town downtown areas.
Guntersville (previously known as Gunter's Ferry and later Gunter's Landing) is a city and the county seat of Marshall County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population of the city was 8,553. [5] Guntersville is located in a HUBZone as identified by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
As a result of the Tennessee Valley Act and the creation of the lake, Guntersville has seen improved agriculture, energy, industry and recreation. Known for its hiking, camping, fishing, boating activities and scenery, Alabama's Lake City is repeatedly noted as a top spot for bass fishing [3] and one of the top lake towns [4] to live in America.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Guntersville: 64.279: 103.447: US 431 south – Albertville, Gadsden: Southern end of US 431/SR 1 concurrency: 65.359: 105.185: SR 69 south – Cullman, Arab, Tuscaloosa, Jackson: Northern terminus of SR 69: 65.727: 105.777: SR 227 north – Lake Guntersville State Park, Bucks Pocket State Park: Southern terminus of SR 227 71.651: 115.311
Marshall County is a county of the state of Alabama, United States.As of the 2020 census the population was 97,612. [1] Its county seat is Guntersville. [2] A second courthouse is in Albertville.
The southern terminus of SR 227 until approximately 1985 occurred on Meighan Boulevard in Gadsden, Alabama which is also US 278/US 431. The routing ran northward passing near the Noccalula Falls Park then crossing I-59 (exit 188), followed by an intersection with US 11 near Reece City and continuing onto Crossville, Alabama.
Created by Wheeler Dam along the Tennessee River, it stretches 60 miles (97 km) from Wheeler Dam to Guntersville Dam. It is Alabama's second largest lake at 68,300 acres (276 km 2), only a few hundred acres smaller than Alabama's Guntersville Lake, which is 69,100 acres (280 km 2) and is separated by the Guntersville dam from the lake.