Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2802
Land area (2000): 14.441211 sq. miles (37.402562 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.365530 sq. miles (3.536706 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 15.806741 sq. miles (40.939268 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14775
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.666538 N, 79.852683 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Cheat Lake
Wikipedia
Cheat Lake is a reservoir on the Cheat River in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. It was originally named Lake Lynn, but the Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Cheat Lake as the reservoir's name in 1976. The surface area of Cheat Lake is about . The volume is approximately . It is located immediately downstream of the Cheat Canyon.
Cheat Lake has 3 marinas located towards the river end of the reservoir. They are Edgewater Marina, Lakeside Marina, and Sunset Beach Marina.
Cheat Lake Dam is located directly south of the Mason–Dixon line border with Pennsylvania. The dam is run by eleven employees and has a generating capacity of . Cheat Lake Dam's total length across the Cheat River is approximately . The first water flowed over the dam on December 23, 1925 and it began its operation on May 31, 1926.