Pinhook Ferry
Pinhook Ferry is a road junction in Meigs County, Tennessee.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station and Watts Bar Dam.
Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station
Power station
Photo: TVA Web Team, CC BY 2.0.
The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear reactor pair used for electric power generation. It is located on a 1,770-acre site in Rhea County, Tennessee, near Spring City, between Chattanooga and Knoxville. Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station is situated 1 mile west of Pinhook Ferry.
Watts Bar Dam
Dam
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Watts Bar Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Meigs and Rhea counties in Tennessee, United States. The dam is one of nine dams on the main Tennessee River channel operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to provide flood control and electricity and to help create a continuous navigable channel along the entire length of the river. Watts Bar Dam is situated 1¼ miles north of Pinhook Ferry.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Euchee.
Euchee
Hamlet
Euchee is an unincorporated community in Meigs County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Euchee is situated 6 miles northeast of Pinhook Ferry.
Pinhook Ferry
- Type: Road junction
- Also known as: “Watts Bar Ferry”
- Category: transportation
- Location: Meigs County, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.60618° or 35° 36′ 22″ northLongitude
-84.77439° or 84° 46′ 28″ westElevation
686 feet (209 metres)Open location code
867QJ64G+F6GeoNames ID
4649721
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