Brown Island
Brown Island is an island in Clay, North Carolina. Brown Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Cedar Cliff, as well as near Friendship.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Chatuge and Chatuge Dam.
Lake Chatuge
Photo: Miles Buddy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Chatuge is an area of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Northeastern Georgia, bordered on the north by North Carolina. It surrounds and takes its name from the TVA electric generation reservoir located here.
Chatuge Dam
Dam
Photo: Miles Buddy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chatuge Dam is a flood control and hydroelectric dam on the Hiwassee River in Clay County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The dam is the uppermost of three dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s for flood storage and to provide flow regulation at Hiwassee Dam further downstream.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hiawassee and Hayesville.
Hiawassee
Village
Photo: Thomson200, CC0.
Hiawassee is the county seat of Towns County, Georgia, United States. The population was 981 at the 2020 census. Its name is derived from the Cherokee—or perhaps Creek—word Ayuhwasi, which means meadow, Hiawassee is also known in the novel "Restart" by Gordon Korman.
Hayesville
Town
Hayesville is a town in Clay County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 311 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Clay County.
Young Harris
Village
Photo: Thomson200, CC0.
Young Harris is a city in Towns County, Georgia, United States. The population was 1,098 at the 2020 census. Young Harris is home to Young Harris College, after which it was named. Young Harris is situated 5 miles southwest of Brown Island.
Brown Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Clay County, North Carolina, United States of America
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Clay, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.99521° or 34° 59′ 43″ northLongitude
-83.78766° or 83° 47′ 16″ westElevation
1,929 feet (588 metres)Open location code
866RX6W6+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 357800975OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Cebuano—“Brown Island” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ব্রাউন দ্বীপ”
- Cebuano: “Brown Island”
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Localities in the Area
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