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Apalachia Dam, North Carolina
Apalachia Dam on the Hiwassee River in North Carolina.
Open in BirdTrout35.167856, -84.295468 · Cherokee County · NID NC00181. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Hiwassee River carries no anadromous run on our corridor map, so this page makes no claim about salmon or steelhead at this dam. What it sits on is coldwater — resident trout water — and the section below says which classification says so.
The structure
- Owner
- TVA Federal
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric, Recreation
- Completed
- 1943
- Type
- Concrete
- Height
- 150 ft
- Length
- 1308 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled, 320 ft wide
- Storage
- 63,456 acre-ft · 1,100 acre pool
- Drainage
- 1,018 sq mi
- Condition
- Not Available · High hazard potential
From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.
The water above and below
- Shuler Creek 0.72 mi from the dam · Hatchery Supported Trout Waters · stocked holdover (NCWRC)
- Adams Branch 0.87 mi from the dam · Wild Trout Waters · wild (NCWRC)
- Camp Creek 1.05 mi from the dam · Wild Trout Waters · wild (NCWRC)
Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.
Water right now
No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 20 miles of this dam, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.
Getting to it
The dam sits on or beside public land, OTHF.
- Apalachia 6.7 mi · boat launch · Apalachia Lake
Public access sites near the dam, straight-line distance. A dam itself is private property unless its owner says otherwise; these are the places the state lists as open.
Fly shops nearby
- Toccoa River Outfitters 13.1 mi · Copperhill · +1-423-548-0066
- Tri-State Bait & Tackle 19.1 mi · Mineral Bluff · +1-706-374-2030