Jordon Dam, North Carolina

Jordon Dam on the Ararat River in North Carolina.

36.5276, -80.5936 · Surry County · NID NC04268. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.

What the runs do here

Ararat 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: Joel D Tedder Private
Purpose: Recreation
Type: Earth
Height: 26 ft
Length: 230 ft
Spillway: None
Storage: 11 acre-ft · 1 acre pool
Condition: Fair · 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

Ararat River 0.71 mi from the dam · Hatchery Supported Trout Waters · stocked holdover (NCWRC)
Johnson Creek 0.9 mi from the dam · Class VI · stocked holdover (VDWR)

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

Tumbling Rock Reservoir 1.9 mi · walk in · Tumbling Rock Reservoir
Lovill's Creek 4.5 mi · Lovills Creek Lake
Luck Stone 5.3 mi · canoe launch · Ararat River

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.

The river this is on

Ararat River Live temperature, regulations, hatches and access on the whole river →

Open this water on the map →Every reach around it coloured by today's water temperature, with the access points along it.