| Chickamauga Dam | |
|---|---|
 Chickamauga Dam | |
| Official name | Chickamauga Dam |
| Location | Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States |
| Coordinates | 35°06′14″N 85°13′46″W / 35.10389°N 85.22944°W |
| Construction began | January 13, 1936 |
| Opening date | January 15, 1940 |
| Operator(s) | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| Dam and spillways | |
| Impounds | Tennessee River |
| Height | 129 ft (39 m)[1] |
| Length | 5,800 ft (1,800 m)[1] |
| Reservoir | |
| Creates | Chickamauga Lake |
| Total capacity | 737,300 acre⋅ft (909,400 dam3)[1] |
| Catchment area | 20,790 sq mi (53,800 km2)[1] |
The Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to improve navigation and bring flood control and economic development to the Tennessee Valley. The dam impounds the 36,240-acre (14,670 ha) Chickamauga Lake and feeds into Nickajack Lake. The dam and associated infrastructure were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
Chickamauga Dam is named for the Chickamaugas, a politically detached branch of the Cherokee whose chief village was located just north of the dam site during the 18th century.[2] The tribe's name has also been applied to several streams in the Chattanooga area, as well as an important American Civil War battle and a sandbar that existed at the dam site prior to its construction.[3]
- ^ a b c d "Chickamauga Dam". National Performance of Dams Program, National Inventory of Dams. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
- ^ TVA: Chickamauga Reservoir Archived 2015-08-22 at the Wayback Machine fact sheet, TVA website
- ^ Tennessee Valley Authority, The Chickamauga Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Chickamauga Project, Technical Report No. 6 (Knoxville, Tenn.: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1942), 1-12, 41-43, 49, 246.