Fontana Dam
Fontana Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Little Tennessee River in Swain and Graham counties, North Carolina, United States. The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to satisfy the skyrocketing electricity…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Shuckstack.
Shuckstack
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Shuckstack is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains of Swain County, North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. It has an elevation of 4,020 feet above sea level and rises approximately 2,300 feet above Fontana Lake to the south. Shuckstack is situated 2½ miles north of Fontana Dam.
Fontana Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in North Carolina, United States of America, United States of America
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Unorganized Territory of Forneys Creek, Swain, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.45229° or 35° 27′ 8″ northLongitude
-83.80505° or 83° 48′ 18″ westElevation
1,581 feet (482 metres)Inception
November 11th, 1944Operator
Tennessee Valley AuthorityOpen location code
867RF52V+WXOpenStreetMap ID
way 43380314OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Fontana Dam” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Fontana urtegia”
- Cebuano: “Fontana Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد فونتانا”
- French: “barrage de Fontana”
- French: “Barrage de Fontana”
- French: “Fontana Dam”
- Italian: “diga di Fontana”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fontana-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Fontana-demningen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Фонтана”
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