Barkley Dam is a dam along the

Cumberland River The Cumberland River is a major waterway of the Southern United States. The U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed June 8, 2011 river drains almost of southern Kentucky and ...

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. Its construction along with

Kentucky Dam Kentucky Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River on the county line between Livingston County, Kentucky, Livingston and Marshall County, Kentucky, Marshall counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The dam is the lowermost of nine dams on ...

formed the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area (LBLNRA) by stopping the flow of the Cumberland and

Tennessee River The Tennessee River is a long river located in the Southern United States, southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. Flowing through the states of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, it begins at the confluence of Fren ...

s, forming

Lake Barkley Lake Barkley, a reservoir in Livingston County, Lyon County and Trigg County in Kentucky and extending into Stewart County and Houston County in Tennessee, was impounded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1966 upon the completion of ...

and

Kentucky Lake Kentucky Lake is a major navigable river, navigable reservoir along the Tennessee River in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was created in 1944 by the Tennessee Valley Authority's impounding of the Tennessee River via Kentucky Dam for flood control a ...

respectively. It is operated by the

United States Army Corps of Engineers The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A direct reporting unit (DRU), it has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, military construction, and civil wo ...

. Barkley Dam is high and impounds a maximum of . Completed in 1966, the dam and artificial lake were both named for

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Alben Barkley Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was the 35th vice president of the United States serving from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. In 1905, he was elected to local offices and in 1912 as a U.S. rep ...

. Electricity from the dam is marketed by the Southeastern Power Administration.

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Barkley Dam and Lake Barkley
US Army Corps of Engineers
Barkley Dam Reservoir Information
Tennessee Valley Authority
Barkley Lock & Dam Info
on KentuckyLake.com Dams in Kentucky Buildings and structures in Livingston County, Kentucky Buildings and structures in Lyon County, Kentucky Hydroelectric power plants in Kentucky United States Army Corps of Engineers dams Energy infrastructure completed in 1966 Dams completed in 1966 Dams on the Cumberland River {{US-dam-stub