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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 .
Once at the Tennessee River in the western part of the state, the border shifts south onto the actual 36°30′ parallel. [5] An 1818 survey erroneously placed the state's southern border 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the 35th parallel; Georgia legislators continue to dispute this placement, as it prevents Georgia from accessing the Tennessee River. [6]
Because of its unique history, many of the boundaries of the political divisions of the United States were artificially constructed (rather than permitted to evolve and drawn using natural features of the landscape). Therefore, many U.S. states have straight lines as boundaries, especially in the West.
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 ...
Map of the Tennessee Watershed. The Tennessee Valley is the drainage basin of the Tennessee River and is largely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from southwest Kentucky to north Alabama and from northeast Mississippi to the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. The border of the valley is known as the Tennessee Valley Divide.
The northern border was originally defined as 36°30′ north latitude and the Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665, but due to faulty surveys, begins north of this line in the east, and to the west, gradually veers north before shifting south onto the actual 36°30′ parallel at the Tennessee River in West Tennessee.
The Great Smoky Mountains (Cherokee: ᎡᏆ ᏚᏧᏍᏚ ᏙᏓᎸ, Equa Dutsusdu Dodalv) are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States. They are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains and form part of the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province .
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.