The ford was on or near land owned by Abner Mansfield Tims, an early Franklin County settler.

Winchester (which is the Franklin County seat), Decherd, Estill Springs, Tullahoma, and Lynchburg.

Tims Ford Dam was TVA’s first hydroelectric facility retrofitted with a small generating unit for the purpose of maintaining instantaneous downstream minimum flows.

Additionally, 85,400 cubic yards of concrete make up Tims Ford Dam.

[4] The dam was built for a few key reasons according to TVA:[5] This Franklin County, Tennessee geography–related article is a stub.