Watts Bar Resort
Watts Bar Resort is a resort in Rhea, Tennessee.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Watts Bar Dam and Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station.
Watts Bar Dam
Dam
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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 1,700 feet east of Watts Bar Resort.
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 1½ miles south of Watts Bar Resort.
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 Resort.
Watts Bar Resort
- Type: Resort
- Also known as: “Watts Bar Dam”
- Categories: accommodation, building, and tourism
- Location: Rhea, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.62146° or 35° 37′ 17″ northLongitude
-84.78772° or 84° 47′ 16″ westElevation
846 feet (258 metres)Open location code
867QJ6C6+HWGeoNames ID
4666186
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