page_title: Watauga Dam
hierarchical_section_title: Watauga Dam
caption_attribution_description: English: Watauga Dam in 2008 This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 100001463
context_page_description: Watauga Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control dam on the Watauga River in Carter County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the 1940s as part of efforts to control flooding in the Tennessee River watershed. At 318 feet, Watauga is the second-highest dam in the TVA river and reservoir system, and at the time of its completion was one of the highest earth-and-rock dams in the United States. The dam impounds the TVA Watauga Reservoir of 6,430 acres, and its tailwaters feed into Wilbur Lake. The Appalachian Trail crosses the top of Watauga Dam.
  Watauga Dam is named after the Watauga River. The river was named after a Cherokee settlement— the Watauga Old Fields— once located along the river at modern Elizabethton. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 2017.
context_section_description: Watauga Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control dam on the Watauga River in Carter County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.  It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the 1940s as part of efforts to control flooding in the Tennessee River watershed.  At 318 feet (97 m), Watauga is the second-highest dam in the TVA river and reservoir system (behind only Fontana), and at the time of its completion was one of the highest earth-and-rock dams in the United States.  The dam impounds the TVA Watauga Reservoir of 6,430 acres (2,600 ha), and its tailwaters feed into Wilbur Lake.  The Appalachian Trail crosses the top of Watauga Dam.
  Watauga Dam is named after the Watauga River.  The river was named after a Cherokee settlement— the Watauga Old Fields— once located along the river at modern Elizabethton. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 2017.
caption: Watauga Dam (from upstream), June, 2008
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