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Sequoyah Dam, North Carolina
Sequoyah Dam on the Cullasaja River in North Carolina.
Open in BirdTrout35.0675, -83.2249 · Macon County · NID NC00160. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Cullasaja 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
- Town of Highlands Local Government
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric
- Completed
- 1926
- Type
- Concrete
- Height
- 25 ft
- Length
- 194 ft
- Spillway
- None
- Storage
- 2,376 acre-ft · 54 acre pool
- Drainage
- 14 sq mi
- 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
- Cullasaja River 0.01 mi from the dam · Hatchery Supported Trout Waters · stocked holdover (NCWRC)
- Skitty Creek 0.85 mi from the dam · Wild Trout Waters · wild (NCWRC)
- South Skitty Branch 0.98 mi from the dam · Wild Trout Waters · wild (NCWRC)
- Long Branch 1.46 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, USFS.
No listed public access site within 8 miles of this dam.
Fly shops nearby
- Brookings Anglers 7.7 mi · Cashiers
- Highland Hiker 7.7 mi · Cashiers
- Casters Fly Shop 11.8 mi · Franklin
- Chattooga River Fly Shop 16.8 mi · Mountain Rest
- Jocassee Outfitters Fly Shop and Fly Fishing Guide Service 17.3 mi · Salem