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Georgia has almost eight million acres (32,000 km 2) of prime farmland while over 60% of the land is made up of pine forests. Georgia has 70,150 miles (112,900 km) of streams and rivers, 425,000 acres (1,720 km 2) of lakes, and approximately 4,500,000 acres (18,000 km 2) of freshwater wetlands. Manganese, iron, copper, and other minerals make ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... List of lakes of Georgia (U.S. state) C. Coleman Pond; G. Gannet Lake; L. Lake Burton (Georgia)
Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River. The lake encompasses 38,000 acres (15,000 ha) or 59 sq mi (150 km 2) of water, and 692 mi (1,114 ...
Wassaw Island. Whitemarsh Island. Wilmington Island. Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge. Categories: Landforms of Georgia (U.S. state) Islands of the United States by state. Hidden category: Automatic category TOC generates no TOC.
This is a list of state parks in Georgia. The park system of the US state of Georgia was founded in 1931 with Indian Springs State Park and Vogel State Park. Indian Springs has been operated by the state as a public park since 1825, making it perhaps the oldest state park in the United States. [ 1] The newest state park is Don Carter State Park.
Lake Lanier Islands is a resort complex built on a small group of islands on Lake Lanier, the largest lake in Georgia, located 60 miles northeast of Atlanta, Georgia.The resort complex was established in 1974 and includes a hotel, water park, golf course, multiple conference and meeting venues, beaches, boat docks, and a number of other recreational amenities.
Lake Chatuge is the highest major lake in the state of Georgia. [ 5] It takes up 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) and is 13 miles (21 km) long. [ 6][ 4] The lake is named after an 18th-century Cherokee Native American settlement once located near the dam site. [ 4][ 7] The word means “Beautiful” and “Land where the waters meet” (the lake covers ...
Lake Rabun is a twisty 835-acre (3.4 km 2) reservoir with 25 miles (40 km) of shoreline located in the Northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Georgia in Rabun County. It is the third lake in a six-lake series that follows the original course of the Tallulah River. The series begins with Lake Burton as the northernmost lake, followed by Lake ...