Smith Mountain Lake

largest lake entirely in Virginia, USA
LakeBodyOfWater reservoir Q7332083
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Smith Mountain Lake

Summary

Smith Mountain Lake is a reservoir[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of reservoir entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (85 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Smith Mountain Lake is located in Bedford County[3].
  • Smith Mountain Lake is located in Franklin County[4].
  • Smith Mountain Lake is located in Pittsylvania County[5].
  • Smith Mountain Lake is in the country of United States[6].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's image is recorded as SmithMtnLake VA.JPG[7].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's instance of is recorded as reservoir[8].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's inflows is recorded as Roanoke River[9].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's inflows is recorded as Blackwater River[10].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's outflows is recorded as Roanoke River[11].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's basin country is recorded as United States[12].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 148992141[13].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85123670[14].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's IdRef ID is recorded as 197063721[15].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's Commons category is recorded as Smith Mountain Lake[16].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 216180[17].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's start time is recorded as +1963-00-00T00:00:00Z[18].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's GNIS Feature ID is recorded as 1502131[19].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 37.0411, 'longitude': -79.5353, 'precision': 0.0001}[20].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05_vf9[21].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0443116[22].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's GeoNames ID is recorded as 4786236[23].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 2671743[24].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's area is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q712226', 'amount': '+83'}[25].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's FAST ID is recorded as 1243974[26].
  • Smith Mountain Lake's residence time of water is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q577', 'amount': '+3.35'}[27].

Body

Geography

Smith Mountain Lake is in the country of United States[6]. Located in include Bedford County[3], a county of Virginia[28], in United States[29], founded in 1753[30]; Franklin County[4], a county of Virginia[31], in United States[32], founded in 1785[33]; and Pittsylvania County[5], a county of Virginia[34], in United States[35], founded in 1767[36].

Physical Characteristics

Smith Mountain Lake's area is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q712226', 'amount': '+83'}[25].

Designation and Status

Smith Mountain Lake's instance of is recorded as reservoir[8].

Why It Matters

Smith Mountain Lake ranks in the top 5% of reservoir entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (85 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wldb.ilec.or.jp. wldb.ilec.or.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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