Piney River (East Tennessee)

This article is about the river in East Tennessee. For the river in Middle Tennessee, see Piney River (Middle Tennessee).
Piney River

Upstream view from the Cumberland Trail bridge
Basin
Main source Confluence of Piney and Duskin Creeks
~ 1,020 ft (310 m)[1]
River mouth Watts Bar Lake
741 ft (226 m)[2]

The Piney River is a stream that drains a portion of Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau generally known as Walden Ridge. The Piney River rises near the Rhea County – Bledsoe County line and is referred to as Piney Creek in its upper reaches roughly until its confluence with Duskin Creek. Its major tributary, Little Piney Creek, flows over two spectacular but largely inaccessible waterfalls which are located in a State Natural Area near the community of Grandview. The confluence of the two streams occurs below the falls of the smaller stream in an area referred to as "Shut-in Gap". The stream flows out of the gap and is bridged by State Route 68 just before that road begins its steep climb up the Cumberland Escarpment onto Waldens Ridge. The stream flows north of Spring City, Tennessee and becomes slack just east of the town at an headland of Watts Bar Lake, an impoundment of the Tennessee River formed by the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Dam project. The mouth of the Piney is one of the larger bays of Watts Bar Lake and contains several small islands.

Variant names

According to the Geographic Names Information System, Piney River has also been known historically as:[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. Pennine quadrangle, TN. 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington D.C.: USGS, 1990.
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. Spring City quadrangle, TN. 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington D.C.: USGS, 1990.
  3. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Piney River

Coordinates: 35°39′14″N 84°46′59″W / 35.65396°N 84.78300°W / 35.65396; -84.78300


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