Jocassee Dam
Jocassee Dam is an embankment dam on the Keowee River, straddling the border of Pickens and Oconee counties in South Carolina in the United States. The dam forms Lake Jocassee, which is fed by the Toxaway, Thompson, Horsepasture and Whitewater Rivers, and serves primarily for hydroelectric power generation and flood control.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nine Times.
Nine Times
Hamlet
Nine Times is an unincorporated community in Pickens County. The community was so named on account of the nine water crossings of a path over a nearby creek. Nine Times is situated 5 miles southeast of Jocassee Dam.
Jocassee Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Pickens/Oconee Counties, South Carolina
- Categories: embankment dam and pumped-storage power station
- Location: Oconee, South Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.95979° or 34° 57′ 35″ northLongitude
-82.91858° or 82° 55′ 7″ westElevation
994 feet (303 metres)Height
384 feet (117 metres)Operator
Duke EnergyOpen location code
866VX35J+WHOpenStreetMap ID
way 34557820OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Jocassee Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jocassee Dam”
- German: “Pumpspeicherkraftwerk Jocassee”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jocassee vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Jocassee vannkraftverk”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС-ГАЕС Jocassee”
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