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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 a 652 mi (1,049 km) long river located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley .
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operate many hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and their tributaries. These dams form many large reservoirs throughout the state. [41] About half the state's land area is in the Tennessee Valley drainage basin of the Tennessee River. [38]
However, there are many partial state boundaries, particularly in the Midwest, Northeast, and South, that are defined by rivers; in fact, only four mainland states (Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming) completely lack any borders defined by rivers or waterways, as well as Hawaii whose borders are the islands. Map of U.S. river/waterway state ...
Map of Tennessee (click on map to see larger image) Module:Location map/data/USA Tennessee is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Tennessee River: 284 mi (457 km) Columbia: East Fork Poplar Creek: Poplar Creek: Oak Ridge: Elk River (Watauga River tributary) Watauga River: Elk Mills: 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 ...
This map shows key rivers - French Broad, Nolichucky and Pigeon - and dams that were hit hard by the floods. Key East Tennessee rivers and dams hit hard by Hurricane Helene flooding
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 major features of the waterway are 234 miles (377 km) of navigation channels, a 175-foot-deep (53 m) cut between the watersheds of the Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers, and ten locks and dams. [1] The locks are 9 by 110 by 600 feet (2.7 m × 33.5 m × 182.9 m), the same dimension as those on the Mississippi above Lock and Dam 26 at Alton ...