Watauga Lake
Watauga Lake, located east of Elizabethton, Tennessee, is the local name of the Watauga Reservoir created by the Tennessee Valley Authority with the 1948 completion of the TVA Watauga Dam.- Type: Reservoir
- Description: lake in the United States of America
- Also known as: “Watauga Reservoir”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Butler and Fish Springs.
Butler
Hamlet
Butler is an unincorporated community in Johnson County in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located along the northern shore of Watauga Lake. Butler is served by a post office, assigned ZIP Code 37640.
Fish Springs
Hamlet
Fish Springs is an unincorporated community in Carter County, Tennessee. Fish Springs is located on the south shore of Watauga Lake, along US Route 321 and Tennessee State Route 67 east of Hampton. Fish Springs is situated 2 miles southwest of Watauga Lake.
Doeville
Village
Doeville is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Tennessee. It is concentrated around the intersection of Tennessee State Route 67 and Tennessee State Route 167, west of Mountain City and east of Butler. Doeville is situated 5 miles northeast of Watauga Lake.
Watauga Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Carter, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.33288° or 36° 19′ 58″ north
Longitude
-82.03011° or 82° 1′ 48″ west
Elevation
1,959 feet (597 metres)
Open location code
868V8XM9+5X
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Watauga Lake” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Watauga Lake”
- Dutch: “Watauga Lake”
- French: “Watauga Lake”
- German: “Watauga Dam”
- German: “Watauga Lake”
- Italian: “lago di Watauga”
- Japanese: “ワタウガ湖”
- Spanish: “Lago Watauga”
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