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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- 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″ north
Longitude
-84.17761° or 84° 10′ 39″ west
Established
May 1940
Operator
Open location code
867Q5R2C+8X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
Wikidata ID
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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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