Chilhowee Dam
Chilhowee Dam is a hydroelectric dam located in Blount and Monroe counties, Tennessee, United States, between river mile 33 and 34 on the Little Tennessee River.Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Industrial building
- Description: dam in Monroe County, Tennessee, United States of America
- Also known as: “Chilhowee Power Plant”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kirkland Island.
Kirkland Island
Island
The Little Tennessee River is a 135-mile tributary of the Tennessee River that flows through the Blue Ridge Mountains in the southeastern United States from Georgia, into North Carolina, and then into Tennessee. Kirkland Island is situated 2 miles west of Chilhowee Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tallassee and Calderwood.
Tallassee
Hamlet
Tallassee is an unincorporated community in Blount County, Tennessee. Its ZIP code is 37878. Tallassee is located along U.S. Route 129 approximately a half mile west of Chilhowee Dam along the banks of the Little Tennessee River.
Calderwood
Hamlet
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 3.0.
Calderwood was a community once located along the Little Tennessee River in Blount County, Tennessee, United States. Established in 1912 as a base for the Aluminum Company of America's Little Tennessee Valley hydroelectric development operations, the community continued to house construction personnel and dam maintenance personnel for nearby Calderwood Dam until the 1960s. Calderwood is situated 4 miles southeast of Chilhowee Dam.
Chilhowee Dam
- Categories: dam, hydroelectric power station, building, and industry
- Location: Blount, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.54537° or 35° 32′ 43″ northLongitude
-84.05031° or 84° 3′ 1″ westInception
August 1957Operator
Brookfield Smoky Mountain Hydropower LPOpen location code
867QGWWX+4VOpenStreetMap ID
way 1086296312OpenStreetMap feature
building=industrialWikidata ID
Q5098914
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Chilhowee Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chilhowee Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد تشيلهوى”
- French: “barrage de Chilhowee”
- French: “Barrage de Chilhowee”
- Italian: “diga di Chilhowee”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Chilhowee”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Turkeypen Bluff and Lower Chilhowee Church.
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