Interesting Lake Norman Facts:

  1. Lake Norman was created in 1963 when Duke Power dammed the Catawba River
  2. Lake Norman is Catawba River’s largest lake
  3. Lake Norman was named after former Duke Power president Norman Atwater Cocke
  4. Lake Norman is 32,510 acres at full pond and can hold 3.4 trillion gallons of water
  5. Lake Norman is 110 feet at its deepest point, and averages a depth of 33.5 feet
  6. Lake Norman has 520 miles or shoreline and is 34 miles long and 8 miles across at its widest point
  7. There are 3 generating plants on Lake Norman: Cowan’s Ford, Marshall Steam Station, William B. McGuire Nuclear Station
  8. Four counties border Lake Norman: Mecklenburg, Iredell, Lincoln & Catawba

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