Watts Bar Dam Recreation Area

Watts Bar Dam Recreation Area is a park in Meigs County, Tennessee. Watts Bar Dam Recreation Area is situated nearby to the hamlet Peakland, as well as near Akeman Crossroad.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Watts Bar Dam and Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station.

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 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 2 miles southwest of Watts Bar Dam Recreation Area.

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 5 miles northeast of Watts Bar Dam Recreation Area.

Watts Bar Dam Recreation Area

Type: Park
Description: park in the United States of America
Category: recreation area
Location: Meigs County, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.62551° or 35° 37′ 32″ north

Longitude

-84.77804° or 84° 46′ 41″ west

Elevation

778 feet (237 metres)

Open location code

867QJ6GC+6Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1170420365

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4666183

Wikidata ID

Q49577747

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Cebuano: “Watts Bar Dam Recreation Area”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Peakland and Akeman Crossroad.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Watts Bar Dam Powerhouse and Peak-Hornsby Cemetery.

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