Wheeler Dam
Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River between Lauderdale County and Lawrence County in Alabama. It is one of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the mid-1930s as part of a New Deal-era initiative to improve navigation on the river and bring flood control and economic development to the region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Lawrence County, Alabama, United States of America
- Also known as: “Dam Number 3” and “Worthington Dam”
- Historically known as: “Wheeler Hydroelectric Project”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rogersville and Center Star.
Rogersville
Village
Rogersville is a town in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2018 census, the population of the town is 1,231, up from 1,199 in 2000. Rogersville is situated 5 miles east of Wheeler Dam.
Center Star
Hamlet
Center Star, also known as Centre Star, or Centre, is an unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, in the U.S. state of Alabama. Center Star is situated 6 miles northwest of Wheeler Dam.
Wheeler Dam
- Categories: gravity dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Lauderdale, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Wheeler Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wheeler Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد ويلر”
- French: “barrage Wheeler”
- Italian: “diga di Wheeler”
- Japanese: “ウィーラー・ダム”
- Japanese: “ホイーラー・ダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wheeler-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Wheeler-demningen”
- Slovenian: “Wheeler Dam”
- Slovenian: “Wheelerjev jez”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Вілер”
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Localities in the Area
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