Reelfoot Lake is a shallow natural lake located in the northwest portion of the U.S. state of Tennessee, in Lake and Obion Counties. Much of it is swamp-like, with bayou-like ditches (some natural, some man-made) connecting more open bodies of water called basins, the largest of which is called Blue Basin. Reelfoot Lake is noted for its bald cypress trees and its nesting pairs of bald eagles.
Public use of the lake and grounds has been preserved since it was acquired by the state of Tennessee in the early 20th century and the area was established as Reelfoot Lake State Park. Lake Isom, a similar, smaller lake to the immediate south, has been designated as a National Wildlife Refuge area. In 1966, Reelfoot Lake was designated as a national natural landmark by the National Park Service.[1]
^"National Natural Landmarks - National Natural Landmarks (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-28. Year designated: 1966
ReelfootLake is a shallow natural lake located in the northwest portion of the U.S. state of Tennessee, in Lake and Obion Counties. Much of it is swamp-like...
ReelfootLake State Park is a state park in the northwest corner of Tennessee in the United States. It encompasses ReelfootLake and is situated in Lake...
Marked Tree in Arkansas. It also covers a part of West Tennessee near ReelfootLake, extending southeast into Dyersburg. It is southwest of the Wabash Valley...
was Horseshoe Lake, the namesake for the town of Horseshoe Lake, United States. ReelfootLake in west Tennessee another notable oxbow lake; it was formed...
the legend, as ReelfootLake in Tennessee has been documented as formed by that earthquake. But most geologists believe that the lake was formed earlier...
ReelfootLake of extreme western Tennessee and Kentucky, was created by the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes. Caddo Lake, the Great Dismal and Reelfoot...
Tennessee Land Company took private control of the ReelfootLake. Local residents had long treated the lake as their own. They were also resisting the expansion...
3 million pounds (1,400 t). A commercial fishery for crappies existed at ReelfootLake in Tennessee until 2003. It was one of the few commercial fisheries...
Lake Isom is a small natural lake located in Lake County, Tennessee immediately south of ReelfootLake. It is fed by Running Reelfoot Bayou, the outlet...
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devastating earthquakes between December 1811 and February 1812 that formed ReelfootLake near Tiptonville. The southwestern Blue Ridge Mountains lie within Tennessee's...
Lake County, Tennessee. It provides access to many homes, marinas, businesses, and camps along the shores of ReelfootLake, as well as the Reelfoot Lake...
Plate 574). Cagle FR (1937). "Notes on Natrix rhombifera as observed at ReelfootLake". Journ. Tennessee Acad. Sci. 12: 179-185. Clay WM (1938). "A new water...
Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley...
Kentucky state line north of Union City. This road provides access to ReelfootLake State Park. SR 21 begins as a secondary highway in rural Obion County...
The Vicksburg group was led by an incompetent guide and was lost in the Lake Providence swamps. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French philosopher, witnessed...
of the Mississippi River. A lasting legacy of the earthquakes is the ReelfootLake, a large but shallow body of water in northwestern Tennessee that was...
earthquakes created ReelfootLake in Tennessee from the altered landscape near the river. When measured from its traditional source at Lake Itasca, the Mississippi...
powerful as to ring church bells along the East Coast. Subsidence formed ReelfootLake on the other side of the Mississippi River in West Tennessee. An eyewitness...
structures were completely destroyed at a resort along the shores of ReelfootLake, and in Samburg. A total of eight people were killed by this first tornado...
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