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Kerr Lake, the Glossary

The John H. Kerr Reservoir (often called Kerr Lake in North Carolina and Bugg's Island Lake in Virginia) is a reservoir along the border of the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia.^[1]

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Reservoirs in Virginia
Roanoke River

Bacon's Rebellion

Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677.

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Blue catfish

The blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) is a large species of North American catfish, reaching a length of and a weight of.

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The bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), sometimes referred to as "bream", "brim", "sunny", or, as is common in Texas, "copper nose", is a species of North American freshwater fish, native to and commonly found in streams, rivers, lakes, ponds and wetlands east of the Rocky Mountains.

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Brunswick County, Virginia

Brunswick County is a United States county located on the southern border of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Catfish

Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.

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Charlotte County, Virginia

Charlotte County is a United States county located in the south central part of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28.

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Crappie

Crappies are two species of North American freshwater fish of the genus Pomoxis in the family Centrarchidae (sunfishes).

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Dan River

The Dan River flows in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Dominion Energy

Dominion Energy, Inc., commonly referred to as Dominion, is an American energy company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia that supplies electricity in parts of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina and supplies natural gas to parts of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

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Fort Christanna

Fort Christanna was one of the projects of Lt.

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Freshwater drum

The freshwater drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, is a fish endemic to North and Central America.

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Granville County, North Carolina

Granville County is a county located on the northern border of the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Halifax County, Virginia

Halifax County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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International Game Fish Association

The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) is the leading authority on angling pursuits and the keeper of the most current world record fishing catches by fish categories.

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James River

The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County U.S. Geological Survey.

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John H. Kerr

John Hosea Kerr (December 31, 1873 – June 21, 1958) was an American jurist and politician who served 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1923 to 1953.

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John H. Kerr Dam

John H. Kerr Dam is concrete gravity-dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Kerr Lake. Kerr Lake and John H. Kerr Dam are Roanoke River.

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Kerr Lake State Recreation Area

Kerr Lake State Recreation Area is a North Carolina state park in Vance and Warren counties, North Carolina, in the United States.

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Lake Gaston

Lake Gaston is a reservoir in the eastern United States. Kerr Lake and Lake Gaston are reservoirs in North Carolina, reservoirs in Virginia and Roanoke River.

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Lake Kerr

Lake Kerr is a small lake located in Marion County, Florida, USA.

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Largemouth bass

The largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans) is a carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico.

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List of North Carolina state parks

The State of North Carolina has a group of protected areas known as the North Carolina State Park System, which is managed by the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation (NCDPR), an agency of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NCDNCR).

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Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Mecklenburg County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Monacan Indian Nation

The Monacan Indian Nation is one of eleven Native American tribes recognized since the late 20th century by the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Occoneechee State Park

Occoneechee State Park is a state park near Clarksville, Virginia, located along Buggs Island Lake.

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One-design racing

One-design racing is a racing method which may be adopted in sports using complex equipment, whereby all vehicles have identical or very similar designs or models, avoiding the need for a handicap system.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Roanoke River

The Roanoke River runs long through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States.

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Robert S. Kerr Reservoir

Robert S. Kerr Reservoir is located within the Cookson Hills, on the Arkansas River in Sequoyah, Le Flore, Haskell, and Muskogee counties in eastern Oklahoma, US.

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Saponi

The Saponi are a Native American tribe historically based in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia.

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Sappony

The Sappony are a state-recognized tribe in North Carolina.

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Siouan languages

Siouan or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.

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Staunton River State Park

Staunton River State Park is a state park in Virginia.

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Striped bass

The striped bass (Morone saxatilis), also called the Atlantic striped bass, striper, linesider, rock, or rockfish, is an anadromous perciform fish of the family Moronidae found primarily along the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Tutelo

The Tutelo (also Totero, Totteroy, Tutera; Yesan in Tutelo) were Native American people living above the Fall Line in present-day Virginia and West Virginia.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army.

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Vance County, North Carolina

Vance County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation is a department of the government of Virginia, United States; it oversees all Virginia state parks and Natural Area Preserves.

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Warren County, North Carolina

Warren County is a county located in the northeastern Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina, on the northern border with Virginia, made famous for a landfill and birthplace of the environmental justice movement.

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White bass

The white bass, silver bass, or sand bass (Morone chrysops) is a freshwater fish of the temperate bass family Moronidae.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr_Lake

Also known as Bugg's Island Lake, Buggs Island Lake, John H. Kerr Lake, John H. Kerr Reservoir, John h kerr reservoir.

Kerr Lake, the Glossary

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See also

Reservoirs in Virginia

Roanoke River

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