Elk River (North Carolina

	Elk River (North Carolina–Tennessee) The Elk River is a large stream in the North Carolina High Country and East Tennessee. The headwaters begin from the Northwestern slopes of Peak Mountain in Avery County, North Carolina and end at the Watauga River in Carter County, Tennessee. Hydrography With the headwaters beginning from the Northwestern slopes of Peak Mountain, it flows west to Banner Elk then towards Elk Park. For most of the river's course, it runs in a deep gorge. Just before the Elk River crosses into Tennessee it flows over "Big Falls" (also called "Elk Falls"), a locally-known attraction which is approximately a 60-foot (18 m) drop. It then flows down a narrow, relatively steep valley to the tiny community of Elk Mills, which is named for a former water-powered mill built on this river at this point by early white settlers. Between the state line and Elk Mills, it flows over Twisting Falls, a drop of approximately 30 feet (nine m). At this point, it is bridged by U.S. Highway 321. Shortly be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Avery County, North Carolina Avery County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 17,806. The county seat is Newland, North Carolina, Newland. The county seat was initially established in Elk Park, North Carolina, Elk Park when the county was first formed, but was moved to Newland upon completion of the courthouse in 1912. Founded in 1911, it is the youngest of North Carolina's 100 counties. History The county is the newest of List of counties in North Carolina, North Carolina's 100 counties. It was formed in 1911 from parts of Caldwell County, North Carolina, Caldwell County, Mitchell County, North Carolina, Mitchell County, and Watauga County, North Carolina, Watauga County. It was named for Waightstill Avery, a colonel in the American Revolutionary War and the first North Carolina Attorney General, Attorney General of North Carolina (1777–1779). It is often noted for the large amount of Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Peak Mountain (North Carolina) Peak Mountain is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, near the town of Seven Devils. It is known by several other names such as Tynecastle Peak, Invershiel Peak and Dunvegan Peak. It is wholly in the Pisgah National Forest. Its elevation reaches . The headwaters of the Elk River begins from the Northwestern slopes of the mountain; along the Southwestern slopes, it shares with Sugar Mountain and Flattop Mountain as the headwaters of the Linville River; along the Southeastern slopes, it shares with Grandfather Mountain as the headwaters of the Watauga River The Watauga River () is a large stream of western North Carolina and East Tennessee. It is long with its headwaters in Linville Gap to the South Fork Holston River at Boone Lake. Course The Watauga River rises from a spring located south to .... Attractions ''Hawksnest Snow Tubing and Zipline'', located along northern ridge of the mountain in the town of Seven Devils, offers zip lining year round and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rivers Of Tennessee This is a list of rivers of the U.S. state of Tennessee: By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Tennessee ultimately flow to the Gulf of Mexico. Mississippi River drainage basin Mississippi River ''Lake McKellar'' ''Nonconnah Creek'' ''Wolf River (Tennessee), Wolf River'' ''Loosahatchie River'' ''Hatchie River'' *''Tuscumbia River'' ''Forked Deer River'' *''North Fork of the Forked Deer River, North Fork'' ''Middle Fork of the Forked Deer River, Middle Fork'' ''South Fork of the Forked Deer River, South Fork'' ''Obion River'' *''North Fork'' ''Middle Fork'' ''South Fork'' ''Rutherford Fork'' ''Ohio River (KY)'' ''Tennessee River'' ''Blood River (Kentucky), Blood River'' ''Big Sandy River (Tennessee), Big Sandy River'' ''White Oak Creek (Tennessee), White Oak Creek'' ''Duck River (Tennessee), Duck River'' *''Buc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Rivers Of North Carolina This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of North Carolina. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries alphabetically indented under each larger stream's name. Atlantic Ocean * North Landing River ** Northwest River * North River * Pasquotank River * Little River * Perquimans River * Yeopim River * Chowan River Wiccacon River Meherrin River * Potecasi Creek * Worrell Mill Swamp ** Hares Branch Blackwater River ** Nottoway River * Cashie River Roanoke River * Roanoke River Dan River * Aarons Creek ** Crooked Fork * Hyco River ** Castle Creek Storys Creek Powells Creek Ghent Creek Cane Creek Sargents Creek Hyco Creek * Cobbs Creek * Kilgore Creek * Coneys Creek * Panther Branch * Lynch Creek * Negro Creek South Hyco Creek * Little Duck Creek * Richland Creek * Cub Creek * Double Creek * Sugartree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Tributaries Of The Watauga River A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they flow, drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater, leading the water out into an ocean, another river, or into an endorheic basin. The Irtysh is a chief tributary of the Ob river and is also the longest tributary river in the world with a length of . The Madeira River is the largest tributary river by volume in the world with an average discharge of . A confluence, where two or more bodies of water meet, usually refers to the joining of tributaries. The opposite to a tributary is a distributary, a river or stream that branches off from and flows away from the main stream. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	List Of Tennessee Rivers This is a list of rivers of the U.S. state of Tennessee: By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Tennessee ultimately flow to the Gulf of Mexico. Mississippi River drainage basin Mississippi River ''Lake McKellar'' ''Nonconnah Creek'' '' Wolf River'' ''Loosahatchie River'' ''Hatchie River'' *'' Tuscumbia River'' ''Forked Deer River'' *'' North Fork'' '' Middle Fork'' '' South Fork'' ''Obion River'' *''North Fork'' ''Middle Fork'' ''South Fork'' ''Rutherford Fork'' ''Ohio River (KY)'' ''Tennessee River'' '' Blood River'' '' Big Sandy River'' '' White Oak Creek'' '' Duck River'' *'' Buck Branch'' *'' Buffalo River'' **'' Green River'' **'' Little Buffalo River'' *'' Piney River'' *'' Defeated Creek'' *''Little Duck River'' ''Beech River'' '' Indian Creek'' *'' Smith Fork'' ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of North Carolina Rivers This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of North Carolina. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries alphabetically indented under each larger stream's name. Atlantic Ocean * North Landing River ** Northwest River (North Carolina), Northwest River * North River (North Carolina), North River * Pasquotank River * Little River (Albemarle Sound), Little River * Perquimans River * Yeopim River * Chowan River Wiccacon River Meherrin River * Potecasi Creek * Worrell Mill Swamp **Hares Branch Blackwater River (Virginia), Blackwater River ** Nottoway River * Cashie River Roanoke River * Roanoke River Dan River (Virginia), Dan River * Aarons Creek (Dan River tributary), Aarons Creek **Crooked Fork (Aarons Creek tributary), Crooked Fork * Hyco River ** Castle Creek (Hyco River tributary), Castle Creek Storys Creek (Hyco River tributary), Storys Creek ** Powells Creek (Hyco River tributary), Powells Creek * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	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 Carolina, and Virginia. While owned by the federal government, TVA receives no taxpayer funding and operates similarly to a private for-profit company. It is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is the sixth-largest power supplier and largest public utility in the country. The TVA was created by Congress in 1933 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Its initial purpose was to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, regional planning, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region that had suffered from lack of infrastructure and even more extensive poverty during the Great Depression than other regions of the nation. TVA was envisioned both as a power supplier and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Watauga Dam Watauga Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control dam on the Watauga River in Carter County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the 1940s as part of efforts to control flooding in the Tennessee River watershed. At , Watauga is the second-highest dam in the TVA river and reservoir system (behind only Fontana), and at the time of its completion was one of the highest earth-and-rock dams in the United States. The dam impounds the TVA Watauga Reservoir of , and its tailwaters feed into Wilbur Lake.Tennessee Valley Authority, ''The Upper Holston Projects: Watauga, South Holston, Boone, and Fort Patrick Henry; a Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, Initial Operations, and Costs of Four Hydro Projects in the Holston Basin at the Eastern Tip of Tennessee'', Technical Report No. 14 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958), pp. 1-6, 13-14, 23, 31, 42-43. Its namesake, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Reservoir (water) A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an Bay, embayment within it, excavating, or building any number of retaining walls or levees to enclose any area to store water. Types Dammed valleys Dammed reservoirs are artificial lakes created and controlled by a dam constructed across a valley and rely on the natural topography to provide most of the basin of the reservoir. These reservoirs can either be ''on-stream reservoirs'', which are located on the original streambed of the downstream river and are filled by stream, creeks, rivers or rainwater that surface runoff, runs off the surrounding forested catchments, or ''off-stream reservoirs'', which receive water diversion, diverted water from a nearby stream or aqueduct (water supply), aqueduct or pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Embayment A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, circular bay with a narrow entrance. A ''fjord'' is an elongated bay formed by glacial action. The term ''embayment'' is also used for , such as extinct bays or freshwater environments. A bay can be the estuary of a river, such as the Chesapeake Bay, an estuary of the Susquehanna River. Bays may also be nested within each other; for example, James Bay is an arm of Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada. Some large bays, such as the Bay of Bengal and Hudson Bay, have varied marine geology. The land surrounding a bay often reduces the strength of winds and blocks waves. Bays may have as wide a variety of shoreline characteristics as other shorelines. In some cases, bays have beaches, which "are usually characterized by a steep upper foreshore wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Whites White is a racial classification of people generally used for those of predominantly European ancestry. It is also a skin color specifier, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, ethnicity and point of view. Description of populations as "White" in reference to their skin color is occasionally found in Greco-Roman ethnography and other ancient or medieval sources, but these societies did not have any notion of a White race or pan-European identity. The term "White race" or "White people", defined by their light skin among other physical characteristics, entered the major European languages in the later seventeenth century, when the concept of a "unified White" achieved greater acceptance in Europe, in the context of racialized slavery and social status in the European colonies. Scholarship on race distinguishes the modern concept from pre-modern descriptions, which focused on physical complexion rather than the idea of race. Prior to the mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]