Fontana Dam, North Carolina Fontana Dam, North Carolina Fontana Dam is positioned in North Carolina Fontana Dam - Fontana Dam Fontana Dam (also known as Fontana Village) is a town in Graham County, North Carolina, United States.
Fontana Dam is positioned on North Carolina Highway 28 near the Fontana Dam and the Little Tennessee River.
The town is based around the village assembled to support the dam assembly from 1942-1944, so that the dam could produce electricity to power the ALCOA (ALuminum Company Of America) in close-by Alcoa, Tennessee which is south of Knoxville, Tennessee.
The kids who interval up there amid the dam assembly times now have an association called "Dam Kids" and they keep in touch and have reunions.
Police services were once handled by village business police of the resort, but with Kinzer's felony conviction, the agency disbanded.
With the disbanding of TVA police in 2012, the Graham County Sheriff Department and the NC Highway Patrol are the only police services to the region now.
Fontana Dam incorporated as a Town in June 2011.
The town's chief employer is the Fontana Village Resort, which serves 100,000 visitors annually. Fontana Dam has a postal service with ZIP code 28733. In addition to inhabitants and resort guests, the postal service also serves hikers on the Appalachian Trail, which crosses the Fontana Dam; it is the first postal service on the trail north of its southern end in Georgia.
The Fontana Dam postal service was one of a several scheduled to be closed in 2011, though the closings have since been postponed. "New town of Fontana Dam springs up in the middle of nowhere".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Fontana Dam gets a temporary reprieve from postal service closure".
Municipalities and communities of Graham County, North Carolina, United States Fontana Dam Lake Santeetlah Robbinsville
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