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