Hiwassee Dam
Hiwassee Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Hiwassee River in Cherokee County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is one of three dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s to bring flood control and electricity to the region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Power station
- Description: dam in Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States of America
- Also known as: “Hiwassee Dam Powerhouse”
Hiwassee Dam
- Categories: dam, hydroelectric power station, pumped-storage power station, building, and industry
- Location: Shoal Creek Township, Cherokee, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.15077° or 35° 9′ 3″ northLongitude
-84.17761° or 84° 10′ 39″ westInception
May 1940Operator
Tennessee Valley AuthorityOpen location code
867Q5R2C+8XOpenStreetMap ID
way 425223019OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q5872864
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Hiwassee Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hiwassee Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد هيواسى”
- Italian: “diga di Hiwassee”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hiwassee Lake”
- Norwegian: “Hiwassee Lake”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС-ГАЕС Hiwassee”
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