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…
- Dam
- …lies at an elevation of 1,581 feet (482 metres)
- …is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority
- Description: dam in North Carolina, United States of America, United States of America
- Established: November 11, 1944
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Fontana Dam
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Latitude
35.45229° or 35° 27′ 8″ north
Longitude
-83.80505° or 83° 48′ 18″ west
Open location code
867RF52V+WX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway = dam
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Fontana Dam” goes by many names.
Fontana urtegiaBasque
Fontana DamCebuano
سد فونتاناEgyptian Arabic
diga di FontanaItalian
Fontana-demningenNorwegian
Fontana-demningenNorwegian Bokmål
ГЕС ФонтанаUkrainian
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