Mingo Falls
Mingo Falls is a 120 ft high waterfall located in the Qualla Boundary—a land trust of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians—near the town of Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the eastern United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kaldari, Public domain.
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in Eastern Cherokee Reservation, Cherokee, North Carolina
- Address: Big Cove Road, Cherokee, NC
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mountain Farm Museum and Oconaluftee Visitor Center.
Mountain Farm Museum
Museum
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mountain Farm Museum is situated 2 miles southwest of Mingo Falls.
Oconaluftee Visitor Center
Tourism office
Photo: Warren LeMay, CC0.
Oconaluftee Visitor Center is a tourism office, which is situated 2 miles southwest of Mingo Falls.
Oconaluftee Baptist Church
Church
Photo: W lemay, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Oconaluftee Baptist Church, also known as the Smokemont Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near Cherokee, North Carolina. Oconaluftee Baptist Church is situated 2½ miles northwest of Mingo Falls.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ravensford and Cherokee.
Ravensford
Hamlet
Ravensford is an unincorporated community in Swain County, Western North Carolina. This is within the traditional homeland of the Cherokee people. In a survey and excavation project in the early 21st century, part of the community was found to have archeological resources that were thousands of years old, in addition to more recent historic materials related to the Cherokee people. Ravensford is situated 2½ miles southwest of Mingo Falls.
Cherokee
Photo: Jan Kronsell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cherokee is a town in the North Carolina Mountains within the Qualla Boundary, the proper name of the Cherokee Indian reserve.
Mingo Falls
- Category: body of water
- Location: Swain, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.53183° or 35° 31′ 55″ northLongitude
-83.2749° or 83° 16′ 30″ westElevation
2,602 feet (793 metres)Height
120 feet (37 metres)Open location code
867RGPJG+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 547288692OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfallGeoNames ID
4479722Wikidata ID
Q22975572
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In Other Languages
“Mingo Falls” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “মিঙ্গো জলপ্রপাত”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Tow String and Big Cove.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mingo Falls”. Photo: Kaldari, Public domain.