Jordan Lake
B. Everett Jordan Lake is a reservoir in New Hope Valley, west of Cary and south of Durham in Chatham County, North Carolina, in the United States; the northernmost end of the lake extends into southwestern Durham County.
| B. Everett Jordan Lake | |
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The sun rising over Jordan Lake, taken from Farrington Road | |
B. Everett Jordan Lake B. Everett Jordan Lake | |
| Location | Chatham / Durham counties, North Carolina, United States |
| Coordinates | 35°45′0″N 79°1′30″W |
| Lake type | Reservoir |
| Primary inflows | Haw River, New Hope Creek, Morgan Creek, and Little Creek |
| Primary outflows | Haw River |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Managing agency | United States Army Corps of Engineers |
| Max. length | 16 miles (26 km) |
| Max. width | 5 miles (8.0 km) |
| Surface area | 13,940 acres (56.4 km2) 31,800 acres (129 km2) flood control pool |
| Average depth | 14 feet (4.3 m) |
| Max. depth | 140 feet (43 m) |
| Water volume | 215,100 acre-feet (265.3 hm3) |
| Shore length1 | 180 mi (290 km) |
| Surface elevation | 216 ft (66 m) |
| Frozen | never |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
Part of the Jordan Lake State Recreation Area, the reservoir covers 13,940 acres (5,640 ha) with a shoreline of 180 miles (290 km) at its standard water level of 216 feet (66 m) above sea level. It was developed as part of a flood control project prompted by a particularly damaging tropical storm that hit the region downstream in September 1945. Constructed at an original cost of US$146,300,000, it is owned and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which dammed and flooded the Haw River and New Hope River between 1973 and 1983.