List of rivers of Tennessee
This is a list of rivers of the U.S. state of Tennessee:
By drainage basin
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.
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Lower Mississippi River
Mississippi River Drainage Basin
- Mississippi River
- Lake McKellar
- Wolf River
- Loosahatchie River
- Hatchie River
- Forked Deer River
- Obion River
- North Fork
- Middle Fork
- South Fork
- Rutherford Fork
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Tennessee River Drainage Basin
- Ohio River (KY)
- Tennessee River
- Blood River
- Big Sandy River
- White Oak Creek
- Duck River
- Beech River
- Indian Creek
- Shoal Creek/Sycamore River
- Elk River
- Flint River
- Sequatchie River
- Hiwassee River
- Piney River
- Soak Creek
- Little Piney Creek
- Soak Creek
- Sewee Creek
- Tennessee River
- Ohio River (KY)
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Clinch River Drainage Basin
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Holston River Drainage Basin
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Cumberland River Drainage Basin
- Cumberland River
- Red River
- Harpeth River
- Richland Creek
- Mill Creek
- Stones River
- Plunkett Creek
- Caney Fork
- Hickman Creek
- Smith Fork Creek
- Clear Fork (Smith Fork Creek tributary)
- Indian Creek
- Mine Lick Creek
- Falling Water River
- Collins River
- Rocky River
- Calfkiller River
- Cane Creek
- Dillard Creek/Little Indian Creek
- Defeated 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
- Mobile River (AL)
- Alabama River (AL)
- Coosa River (AL, GA)
- Oostanaula River (GA)
- Coosa River (AL, GA)
- Alabama River (AL)
Alphabetically
- 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 (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 River
- 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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References
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Tennessee (1974)
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