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The Tennessee River begins at mile post 652, where the French Broad River meets the Holston River, but historically there were several different definitions of its starting point. In the late 18th century, the mouth of the Little Tennessee River (at Lenoir City) was considered to be the beginning of the Tennessee River.
Tennessee River: 65.7 mi (105.6 km) Flintville: Forked Deer River: Obion River: Dyersburg: French Broad River: Tennessee River: 219 mi (352 km) Knoxville: Green River: Buffalo River: 21.1 mi (34.0 km) Waynesboro: Harpeth River: Cumberland River: 115 mi (185 km) Franklin: Hatchie River: Mississippi River: 238 mi (383 km) Bolivar: Hickman Creek ...
Boone Dam on the South Fork Holston River forms Boone Reservoir. Chatuge Dam dams the Hiwassee River to form Chatuge Reservoir. Cherokee Dam on the Holston River forms Cherokee Lake. Douglas Dam on the French Broad River impounds Douglas Lake. Elk River Dam on the Elk River forms Woods Reservoir. Fontana Dam on the Little Tennessee River ...
It is the 16th smallest state in terms of land area. The state is about 440 miles (710 km) long from east to west and 112 miles (180 km) wide from north to south. Tennessee is geographically, culturally, economically, and legally divided into three Grand Divisions: East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and West Tennessee.
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 ...
Kentucky Lake is a major navigable reservoir along the Tennessee River in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was created in 1944 by the Tennessee Valley Authority 's impounding of the Tennessee River via Kentucky Dam for flood control and hydroelectric power. [2] The 160,309-acre (649 km 2) lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the ...
West Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of Tennessee that roughly comprises the western quarter of the state. [1] The region includes 21 counties between the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, delineated by state law. [2] Its geography consists primarily of flat lands with rich soil and vast floodplain areas of the Mississippi River ...
Tuckasegee River, Hazel Creek, Abrams Creek. The Little Tennessee River (known locally as the Little T) is a 135-mile (217 km) tributary of the Tennessee River that flows through the Blue Ridge Mountains from Georgia, into North Carolina, and then into Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. It drains portions of three national forests ...