This is a list of rivers of the U.S. state of Tennessee:
By drainage basin
[edit]This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Tennessee ultimately flow to the Gulf of Mexico.
Mississippi River drainage basin
[edit]- Mississippi River
- Lake McKellar
- Wolf River
- Loosahatchie River
- Hatchie River
- Forked Deer River
- Obion River
- North Fork
- Middle Fork
- South Fork
- Rutherford Fork
- Cumberland River
- Red River
- Harpeth River
- Richland Creek
- Mill Creek
- Stones River
- Plunkett Creek
- Caney Fork
- Defeated Creek
- Dillard Creek
- Martin Creek
- Flynn Creek
- Jennings Creek
- Roaring River
- Obey River
- Wolf River
- Rotten Fork Wolf River
- East Fork Obey River
- West Fork Obey River
- Wolf River
- Big South Fork of the Cumberland River
- Clear Fork (Cumberland River tributary)
- Cumberland River
Mobile River drainage basin
[edit]- Mobile River (AL)
- Alabama River (AL)
- Coosa River (AL, GA)
- Oostanaula River (GA)
- Coosa River (AL, GA)
- Alabama River (AL)
Alphabetically
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River located partially in another state
- Bald River
- Barren Fork
- Beaver Creek
- Beech River
- Big Sandy River
- Big South Fork of the Cumberland River
- Blackburn Fork River
- Blood River
- Buffalo River
- Calfkiller River
- Cane Creek (Caney Fork River tributary)
- Caney Fork
- Clear Fork (Big South Fork Cumberland River tributary)
- Clear Fork (Cumberland River tributary)
- Clear Fork (Smith Fork Creek tributary)
- Chickamauga Creek
- Clinch River
- Coal Creek
- Collins River
- Conasauga Creek
- Conasauga River
- Cumberland River
- Defeated Creek (Hickman County, Tennessee)
- Defeated Creek (Smith County, Tennessee)
- Doe River
- Duck River
- East Fork Poplar Creek
- Elk River (North Carolina - Tennessee), tributary of the Watauga River
- Elk River (Tennessee), tributary of the Tennessee River
- Emory River
- Falling Water River
- Flint River
- Forked Deer River
- French Broad River
- Green River
- Harpeth River
- Hatchie River
- Hickman Creek
- Hiwassee River
- Holston River
- Indian Creek (Caney Fork River tributary)
- Indian Creek (Powell River tributary)
- Indian Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
- Injun Creek
- Little Buffalo River
- Little Doe River
- Little Duck River
- Little Emory River
- Little Harpeth River
- Little Indian Creek
- Little Obed River
- Little Pigeon River
- Little Piney Creek
- Little River
- Little Sequatchie River
- Little Tennessee River
- Loosahatchie River
- Louse Creek
- Mill Creek
- Mine Lick Creek
- Mississippi River
- New River
- Nolichucky River
- Nonconnah Creek
- North River
- Obed River
- Obey River
- Obion River
- Ocoee River
- Otter Creek
- Overall Creek
- Pigeon River
- Piney River (East Tennessee)
- Piney River (Middle Tennessee)
- Plunkett Creek
- Poplar Creek
- Powell River
- Red River
- Roan Creek
- Roaring River
- Rocky River
- Rotten Fork Wolf River
- Soak Creek
- Sequatchie River
- Sevenmile Creek
- Sewee Creek
- Shoal Creek
- Smith Fork
- Smith Fork Creek
- Spring Creek
- Stinking Creek
- Stones River
- Sweetwater Creek
- Tellico River
- Tennessee River
- Tuscumbia River
- Watauga River
- White Oak Creek
- Wolf River (Middle Tennessee), tributary of the Obey River
- Wolf River (West Tennessee), tributary of the Mississippi River
See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rivers of Tennessee.
References
[edit]- ^ Colquit, Elle. "Beaver Creek Water Trail". Outdoor Knoxville. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- ^ "American Whitewater". www.americanwhitewater.org. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
- ^ "American Whitewater". www.americanwhitewater.org. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Tennessee (1974)
