Tennessee River

	Tennessee River
	River
	The Tennessee River in dountoun Knoxville frae the tap o Neyland Stadium
Kintra	Unitit States
States	Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky
Soorce	Confluence o French Broad an Holston rivers at Knoxville
- elevation	813 ft (248 m)
- coordinates	35°57′33″N 83°51′01″W / 35.95917°N 83.85028°W
Mooth	Ohio River at Livingston / McCracken coonties, near Paducah, Kentucky
- elevation	302 ft (92 m)
- coordinates	37°04′02″N 88°33′53″W / 37.06722°N 88.56472°WCoordinates: 37°04′02″N 88°33′53″W / 37.06722°N 88.56472°W
Lenth	652 mi (1,049 km)
Basin	40,876 sq mi (105,868 km2)
Discharge
- average	70,575 cu ft/s (1,998 m3/s)
- max	500,000 cu ft/s (14,158 m3/s)
	Map of the Tennessee River watershed
	Tributaries, lakes, and cities associated with the Tennessee River

The Tennessee River is the lairgest tributary o the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 mile (1,049 km) lang an is locatit in the sootheastren Unitit States in the Tennessee Valley. The river wis ance popularly kent as the Cherokee River, amang other names, as mony o the Cherokee haed thair territory alang its banks, especially in eastren Tennessee an northren Alabama.^[2] Its current name is derived frae the Cherokee veelage Tanasi.^[5]

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↑ U.S. Geological Survey. Shooks Gap quadrangle, Tennessee. 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington D.C.: USGS, 1987.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d U.S. Geological Survey Geografic Names Information Seestem: Tennessee River
↑ U.S. Geological Survey. Paducah East quadrangle, Kentucky. 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington D.C.: USGS, 1982.
↑ ^a ^b "Arthur Benke & Colbert Cushing, "Rivers of North America". Elsevier Academic Press, 2005 ISBN 0-12-088253-1
↑ Bright, William (2004). Native American placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 488. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. Retrieved 11 Apryle 2011.