Watauga Lake
Reservoir in Tennessee, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Watauga Lake, located east of Elizabethton, Tennessee, is the local name of the Watauga Reservoir created by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) with the 1948 completion of the TVA Watauga Dam.[1]
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Watauga Lake | |
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Location | Carter / Johnson counties, Tennessee, United States |
Coordinates | 36°19′59″N 82°01′55″W |
Lake type | reservoir |
Primary inflows | Watauga River, Elk River |
Primary outflows | Watauga River |
Basin countries | United States |
Max. length | 16.3 mi (26.2 km) |
Average depth | 16.0 m (52.5 ft) |
Max. depth | 265 ft (81 m) |
Shore length1 | 104.9 mi (168.8 km) |
Surface elevation | 1,959 ft (597 m) |
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. |
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The Cherokee National Forest surrounds both the Tennessee Valley Authority Watauga Reservoir and Wilbur Reservoir in an area of northeast Tennessee that TVA describes as being located "in some of the most beautiful country in the Tennessee River watershed".[2]