Tag: Cedar Bluff

Cedar Bluff is a town in Cherokee County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 1,820. NASCAR driver Tina Gordon is from the town. Unlike the rest of the county, Cedar Bluff is a wet city. It is the “Crappie Capital of the World” – it has the highest number of crappie counted to have been caught of any other place. It also holds the great Weiss Lake and the Cornwall Furnace. The national attraction called the Little River Canyon was formed near there.
Cedar Bluff is located at 34°13’14.182″ North, 85°35’45.596″ West (34.220606, -85.595999).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, square miles (10.7 km), of which, 4.0 square miles (10 km) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km) of it (3.40%) is water. The city sits on Lake Weiss.
The city began as a meeting of the roads to Livingston, Georgia, Lyerly, Georgia, and Centre, Alabama. To the east of the city, there is a Civil War site where Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeated Abel Streight and his…