Neely Henry Lake is located on the
Coosa River
The Coosa River is a tributary of the Alabama River in the U.S. states of Alabama and Georgia. The river is about long.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 27, 2011
...
near
Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden is a city in and the county seat of Etowah County in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is located on the Coosa River about northeast of Birmingham and southwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is the primary city of the Gadsden Metropolitan ...
. The lake was formed by the Neely Henry Dam ( high), built in 1966 by
Alabama Power Company
Alabama Power Company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a company in the southern United States that provides electricity service to 1.4 million customers in the southern two-thirds of Alabama. It also operates appliance stores. It is one ...
for
hydroelectric power and recreation.
Completed on June 2, 1966, the dam and reservoir were named for H. Neely Henry, a senior executive vice-president of Alabama Power. The dam has a 72,900 kilowatt generating capacity; the lake covers 11,200 surface acres (45.3 km
2) with a total capacity of and about of shoreline. The nearest town is
Ohatchee, Alabama to the East of the dam, and
Ragland, Alabama
Ragland is a town in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States southeast of Ashville. It incorporated in 1899. At the 2010 census the population was 1,639, down from 1,918 in 2000. It is part of the Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman Combined Statistical A ...
to the West. It is an excellent recreational lake with fishing opportunities for largemouth bass, spotted bass, bluegill and other sunfish, crappie, catfish, striped bass, hybrid and white bass. Alabama Power maintains three public access sites on the lake.
References
External links
www.neelyhenry.comInformation about Lake Neely Henry
lakes.alabamapower.comAlabama Power Lake Information
Bodies of water of Calhoun County, Alabama
Bodies of water of Etowah County, Alabama
Landmarks in Alabama
Reservoirs in Alabama
Bodies of water of St. Clair County, Alabama
Hydroelectric power plants in Alabama
Alabama Power dams
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