Douglas Lake
Douglas Lake
Location	Tennessee
Coordinates	36°00′N 83°23′W / 36°N 83.383°W / 36; -83.383Coordinates: 36°00′N 83°23′W / 36°N 83.383°W / 36; -83.383
Lake type	Reservoir
Primary inflows	French Broad River
Primary outflows	French Broad River
Basin countries	United States
Max. length	60 mi (97 km)
Max. width	3,527 ft (1,075 m)
Surface area	44.41 sq mi (115.0 km2)[1]
Water volume	1,081,880 acre·ft (1.33448 km3)[1]
Shore length1	513 mi (826 km)[1]
Surface elevation	876 ft (267 m)
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Douglas Lake, also called Douglas Reservoir, is a reservoir created by an impoundment of the French Broad River in East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The lake is situated only a few miles from the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Douglas Dam was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the early 1940s to control flooding in the Tennessee Valley and provide electricity to rural areas in the region.^[1][2] The dam is located just over 32 miles (51 km) upstream from the French Broad's confluence with the Holston River at Knoxville, and its reservoir spans a 40-mile (64 km) stretch of the river between the dam and the Irish Bottoms area near Newport.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Sevier County, Tennessee website
• USGS GNIS: Lake Douglas

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