Tennessee Kentucky Lake Barkley

Kentucky and tennessee have a reciprocal agreement on kentucky lake.

Tennessee kentucky lake barkley. Anglers can fish with either a kentucky or tennessee fishing license from eggner s ferry bridge u s. Army corps of engineers in 1966 upon the completion of barkley dam. Recreational boating wildlife viewing and fishing can occur year around at kentucky lake and lake barkley. Due to extensive flooding of the cumberland and also to help with navigation on the river the corps built a dam barkley dam and finished it in 1964.

Kentucky lake has a flood storage capacity of 4 008 000 acre feet more than 2 5 times of the. The kentucky lakes area consists of 10 counties in western kentucky and northwest tennessee. In addition to fishing on lake barkley there is a civil war monument historic relics commercial marinas public parks and wildlife refuges. With over 57 thousand surface acres of water available for public use lake barkley supports diverse and abundant fish populations.

Lake barkley in us army corp of engineers decided the cumberland river would need to be dammed near the site of kentucky dam on the tennessee river. The lake barkley entrance is approximately 2 2 river miles above barkley dam with the tennessee river entrance located about 2 9 miles upstream from kentucky dam. Kentucky lake is a major navigable reservoir along the tennessee river in kentucky and tennessee. Created in 1944 by the tennessee valley authority s impounding of the tennessee river by kentucky dam the 160 309 acre lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the united states east of the mississippi river with 2 064 miles of shoreline although the nearby lake barkley is larger by volume.

Army corps of engineers in 1966. Hwy 79 in tennessee including all embayments except blood river in kentucky. The canal with a bottom width of 400 feet and a length of 1 75 miles provides a navigable channel for both commerce and recreation craft moving on the two waterways. The surface area covers 250 square miles or just over 160 000 acres stretching 184 miles from gilbertsville kentucky to pickwick dam in tennessee.

Ned mcwherter bridge u s. Fishing licenses can be purchased online from both kentucky and tennessee. Kentucky lake is the 25th largest lake in the united states and the seventh largest as far as man made lakes are concerned. Lake barkley was impounded by the u s.

Barkley measures in at 134 miles long with over 1 000 miles of shoreline to enjoy. Created by impounding the cumberland river this 58 000 acre reservoir is located in livingston lyon and trigg counties in kentucky and extends into stewart and houston counties in tennessee. Both the lake and the dam are named for vice president alben barkley a kentucky native. Lake barkley a 58 000 acre 230 km 2 reservoir in livingston county lyon county and trigg county in kentucky and extending into stewart county and houston county in tennessee was impounded by the u s.