Cheoah River
The Cheoah River is a tributary of the Little Tennessee River in North Carolina in the United States.
It is located in Graham County in far western North Carolina, near Robbinsville, and is approximately 20 miles in length. Its headwaters are in the Appalachian Mountains where it flows northwest near Robbinsville, to the Lake Santeetlah and flows towards the Tennessee border with a terminus at the Little Tennessee between the Cheoah Dam and Lake Calderwood.
Variant names
According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as:
- Cheowa River
- Cheowah River
References
- ^ "ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Cheoah River Watershed Report". Waters Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Cheoah River Topo Map, Graham County NC (Tapoco Area)". TopoZone. Locality, LLC. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "GNIS Detail - Cheoah River". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
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- "Cheoah River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-01-03.