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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 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]
Map of the Tennessee Watershed. 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 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 ...
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.
The Harpeth River, 115 miles (185 km) long, [3] is one of the major streams of north-central Middle Tennessee, United States, and one of the major tributaries of the Cumberland River. Via the Cumberland and the Ohio Rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed. The lower portion of the Harpeth is designated as a "scenic river" under ...
Elk River (Tennessee River tributary) Tennessee River: 195 mi (314 km) Fayetteville: Emory River: Clinch River: 46 mi (74 km) Harriman: Falling Water River: Caney Fork River: 46.8 mi (75.3 km) Cookeville: Flint River: Tennessee River: 65.7 mi (105.6 km) Flintville: Forked Deer River: Obion River: Dyersburg: French Broad River: Tennessee River ...
The Clear Fork (also known as the Clear Fork River or Clear Fork Creek [1]) is a 27.2-mile-long (43.8 km) [3] stream draining part of the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, United States. It is a tributary of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River. By that river, the Cumberland River, and the Ohio River, it is part of the Mississippi River ...