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On April 4, 1989, the State of Georgia legislature passed House Resolution No. 115 making "Clarks Hill" the official state name for both the dam and associated reservoir. [2] Accordingly, Georgia's state map still refers to the lake as Clarks Hill. [9] Many residents of Georgia as well as South Carolina still refer to the lake by its original name.
J. Strom Thurmond Dam, [1] also known in Georgia as Clarks Hill Dam, is a concrete-gravity and embankment dam located 22 miles (35 km) north of Augusta, Georgia on the Savannah River at the border of South Carolina and Georgia, creating Lake Strom Thurmond.
Clarks Hill or Clark Hill can refer to some places in the United States: Clarks Hill, Indiana; Clark Hill (Oneida County, New York) Clarks Hill, South Carolina; Lake Strom Thurmond, formerly known as Clarks Hill Reservoir
Clarks Hill is located at (33.660876, -82.160302 [7]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.2 square miles (8.3 km 2), all land.. The soils of Clarks Hill are moderately well drained or well drained.
The Flood Control Act of 1966 authorized construction of a new reservoir on the Savannah River to be named Trotters Shoals Lake and Dam. The lake and dam were renamed in 1987 after Georgia senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. in the same bill that also renamed Clarks Hill Lake to Lake Strom Thurmond. Construction on the new dam began in 1974 and ...
The Little River is a 72-mile-long (116 km) [1] tributary of the Savannah River in the U.S. state of Georgia.It is formed by the juncture of its North and South forks 5 miles (8 km) north of Crawfordville, and it flows generally east to Clark Hill Lake, where it joins the Savannah River 2 miles (3 km) north of the dam.
Germany Creek is a stream in McDuffie County in the U.S. state of Georgia. [1] A variant name is "German Creek". [1] It empties into Lake Strom Thurmond (Clarks Hill Lake) adjacent to the community of Raysville.
Tuttle Creek Dam and Lake Wilson Dam and Lake Birds on one of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge's salt marshes. Lake Inman is the largest natural lake in Kansas. The shorelines of Kansas Lakes are mostly in government ownership and open to the public for hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking. Large areas of public land surround most of the lakes.