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The 43rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 43 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. The South Dakota-Nebraska border. On 21 June the sun averages, with negligible variance, its local maximum, 70.83 degrees in the sky. [1]
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 .
This is an incomplete list of cities, towns, and communities along the Tennessee River and its branches in the United States. [1] Currently only the more major cities and towns are mentioned. Alphabetically
This is a list of rivers of the US state of Alabama. Alabama has over 132,000 [1] miles of rivers and streams with more freshwater biodiversity than any other US state. Alabama's rivers are among the most biologically diverse waterways in the world. 38% of North America's fish species, 43% of its freshwater gill-breathing snails, 51% of its freshwater turtle species, and 60% of its freshwater ...
Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about 20 miles (32 km) northern boundary, and in the middle stretching 60 miles (97 km) farther north, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.
Because of its location on both a rail line and the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic site during the Civil War. The rail bridge at Bridgeport was among those targeted by the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy in November 1861. [4] Although this attempt failed, [4] the bridge would be burned twice during the course of the war. [5]
Latitude: from North to South this map definition covers 5.3 degrees. At an image height of 200 pixels, that is 0.0265 degrees per pixel. At an image height of 1000 pixels, that is 0.0053 degrees per pixel.
Wilson Dam is located at river mile 259.4 of the Tennessee River, spanning the river in a roughly north–south orientation between Florence and Muscle Shoals in northern Alabama. [4] The dam is 137 feet (42 m) high and 4,541 feet (1,384 m) long. [5] The dam cost almost $47 million (equivalent to $663 million in 2023 [1]). [6]