US$30.3 million[1] (equivalent to $524,436,643 in 2023)
Operator(s)
Tennessee Valley Authority
Dam and spillways
Impounds
Holston River
Height
175 feet (53 m)
Length
6,760 feet (2,060 m)
Reservoir
Creates
Cherokee Lake
Power Station
Commission date
1942-1953
Type
hydroelectric
Turbines
2 x 35 MW, 2 x 33 MW Francis-type
Installed capacity
136 MW[2]
Cherokee Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Holston River in Grainger County and Jefferson County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The dam is operated and maintained by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to help meet urgent demands for energy at the outbreak of World War II.[1] Cherokee Dam is 175 feet (53 m) high and impounds the 28,780-acre (11,650 ha) Cherokee Lake. It has a generating capacity of 136 megawatts. The dam was named for the Cherokee, a Native American tribe that controlled much of East Tennessee when the first European settlers arrived in the mid-18th century.[3]
^ abTennessee Valley Authority, The Cherokee Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Cherokee Project, Technical Report no. 7 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946), pp. 1-19, 32, 237.
^"Hydroelectric Plants in Tennessee". IndustCards. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
^Tennessee Valley Authority, Cherokee Lake. Retrieved: 7 January 2009.
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is located prominently on the shore of Cherokee Lake, an impoundment of the Holston River, via the CherokeeDam. The western terminus of Tennessee State...
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Valley Authority (TVA) with the 1948 completion of the TVA Watauga Dam. The Cherokee National Forest surrounds both the Tennessee Valley Authority Watauga...
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