Davy Crockett Lake is a body of water impounded by
Nolichucky Dam
Nolichucky Dam is a dam on the Nolichucky River near Greeneville, Tennessee, maintained by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).[Nolichucky River
The Nolichucky River is a river that flows through Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Traversing the Pisgah National Forest and the Cherokee National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the river's wate ...]
, south of
Greeneville in
Greene County 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 is also known as the Davy Crockett Reservoir and is maintained by the
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolin ...
(TVA). It is a recreation site home to a variety of game fish.
Recreation
A park owned by Greene County, called Kinser Park is located on the north shore of the lake.
A small TVA recreation area is located below the dam.
References
External links
Kinser Park official site
French Broad River
Davy Crockett
Reservoirs in Tennessee
Bodies of water of Greene County, Tennessee
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