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The 688-mile-long (1,107 km) [2] river drains almost 18,000 square miles (47,000 km 2) of southern Kentucky and north-central Tennessee. The river flows generally west from a source in the Appalachian Mountains to its confluence with the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky, and the mouth of the Tennessee River.
The Tennessee Valley Divide is the boundary of the drainage basin of the Tennessee River and its tributaries. The Tennessee River drainage basin begins with its tributaries in southwestern Virginia and flows generally west to the confluence of the Tennessee with the Ohio River at Paducah, Kentucky. The Tennessee Valley Divide forms a loop ...
Cumberland River: Ohio River: 688 mi (1107 km) Nashville: Defeated Creek (Hickman County) Duck River: Defeated Creek (Smith County) Cumberland River: Defeated: Doe River: Watauga River: 6 mi [3] Elizabethton: Duck River: Tennessee River: 284 mi (457 km) Columbia: East Fork Poplar Creek: Poplar Creek: Oak Ridge: Elk River (Watauga River ...
The Tennessee River flowing through the Tennessee River Gorge. The "Steamboat Bill" Hudson Memorial Bridge in Decatur, Alabama. Natchez Trace Parkway, crossing the Tennessee River in Cherokee, Alabama. The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. [5]
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
The Upper Tennessee Valley, looking east from the edge of the Cumberland Plateau near Rockwood, Tennessee. The Tennessee Valley begins in the upper head water portions of the Holston River, the Watauga River, and the Doe River in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, as well as east of Asheville, North Carolina, with the headwaters of the French Broad and Pigeon rivers, all of which join ...
About half the state's land area is in the Tennessee Valley drainage basin of the Tennessee River. [38] The Cumberland River basin covers the northern half of Middle Tennessee and a small portion of East Tennessee. [39] A small part of north-central Tennessee in Sumner, Macon, and Clay Counties is in the Green River watershed. [42]
The Cumberland River Basin. Kentucky and Tennessee. 17,700 sq mi (46,000 km 2) HUC0513: 0514 Lower Ohio Subregion Subregion: The Ohio River Basin below the confluence with the Kentucky River Basin, to the confluence with the Mississippi River, excluding the Cumberland, Green, Tennessee, and Wabash River Basins. Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky.