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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 River is a 652 mi (1,049 km) long river located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. Flowing through the states of Tennessee , Alabama , Mississippi , Kentucky , it begins at the confluence of French Broad and Holston rivers at Knoxville , and drains into the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky .
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 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.
Tributaries of the Big South Fork, Army Corps of Engineers, 1977 The river draws water from a drainage basin of Carboniferous rock in the Cumberland Plateau. [6]: 21 Taken together, the Big South Fork and its tributaries drain between 1,123 square miles (2,910 km 2) [7]: 39 and 1,382 square miles (3,580 km 2), [6]: 28 of which about 17% is covered by the associated National Recreation Area.
Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a continuous border of rivers running along three of its sides – the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork to the east. [30] Its major internal rivers include the Kentucky River, Tennessee River, Cumberland River, Green River and Licking River.
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.