Davy Crockett Lake is an body of water located on
Tennessee State Route 152
State Route 152 (SR 152) is a east-west state highway traversing the flat farmland of West Tennessee.
Route description
SR 152 begins in Crockett County in Cairo at an interchange with US 412/ SR 20, where the road continues west 1.75 miles as ...
in
Crockett County Crockett County is the name of two counties in the United States, both named for frontiersman and politician Davy Crockett:
* Crockett County, Tennessee
* Crockett County, Texas
Crockett County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in t ...
in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...
of
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
. It was originally named Humboldt Lake. It is a fishing lake home to
catfish
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the three largest species alive ...
and
largemouth bass
The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, bu ...
.
References
Reservoirs in Tennessee
Davy Crockett
Bodies of water of Crockett County, Tennessee
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