Chickamauga Dam
The Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to improve navigation and bring flood control and economic development to the Tennessee Valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Power station
- Description: dam in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States of America
- Also known as: “Chickamauga Power Plant”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tenbridge and South Chickamauga Creek.
Tenbridge
Bridge
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Tenbridge is a vertical-lift railroad bridge over the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It has a main span of 310 feet. The original span was a swing span with a center pivot that was originally built in ca. Tenbridge is situated 1,300 feet west of Chickamauga Dam.
South Chickamauga Creek
River
North and South Chickamauga Creek are short tributaries of the Tennessee River, which join it near Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the north and the south. West Chickamauga Creek is a much longer tributary of South Chickamauga Creek. South Chickamauga Creek is situated 2½ miles south of Chickamauga Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lupton City and Boyce.
Lupton City
Hamlet
Lupton City is a neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The community developed in the 1920s as a mill town, a planned community that contained the Dixie Spinning Mills thread mill and housing for its workers. Lupton City is situated 2 miles west of Chickamauga Dam.
Boyce
Hamlet
Boyce is an area within Chattanooga, Tennessee. Boyce is situated 2½ miles southwest of Chickamauga Dam.
Chattanooga
Chattanooga is the 4th largest city in Tennessee. It is the seat of Hamilton County. It is in Southeast Tennessee on the Tennessee River and near the border of Georgia.
Chickamauga Dam
- Categories: dam, hydroelectric power station, building, and industry
- Location: Hamilton, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.10304° or 35° 6′ 11″ northLongitude
-85.2293° or 85° 13′ 46″ westInception
March 1940Operator
Tennessee Valley AuthorityOpen location code
867P4Q3C+67OpenStreetMap ID
way 1059932895OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q2884932
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Chickamauga Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chickamauga Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد تشيكاماوجا”
- French: “barrage Chickamauga”
- French: “Barrage Chickamauga”
- Italian: “diga di Chickamauga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chickamauga-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Chickamauga-demningen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Чикамога”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Чикамоге”
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