Sequatchie River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Tennessee |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Brady Mountain in Cumberland County, Tennessee |
• coordinates | 35°49′17″N 84°58′40″W / 35.82139°N 84.97778°W[1] |
• elevation | 2,460 ft (750 m)[1] |
Mouth | Tennessee River near Jasper, Tennessee |
• coordinates | 35°01′31″N 85°38′07″W / 35.02528°N 85.63528°W[1] |
• elevation | 597 ft (182 m)[1] |
Length | 116 mi (187 km)[2] |
Basin size | 602 sq mi (1,560 km2)[3] |
Discharge | |
• location | Whitwell, Tennessee, 25.1 miles (40.4 km) above the mouth(mean for water years 1920-1983)[4] |
• average | 745 cu ft/s (21.1 m3/s)(mean for water years 1920-1983)[4] |
• minimum | 16 cu ft/s (0.45 m3/s) September 1925[4] |
• maximum | 32,500 cu ft/s (920 m3/s) March 1973[4] |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• right | Little Sequatchie River |
The Sequatchie River is a 116-mile-long (187 km)[2] waterway that drains the Sequatchie Valley, a large valley in the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. It empties into the Tennessee River downstream from Chattanooga near the Tennessee-Alabama state line.