Nolichucky River
| Nolichucky River | |
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 The Nolichucky River at Embreeville, Tennessee
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| Country | United States |
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| States | North Carolina, Tennessee |
| Primary source | North Toe River |
| - location | Avery County, North Carolina |
| - elevation | 4,280 ft (1,305 m) |
| - coordinates | 35°15′57″N 81°53′13″W / 35.26583°N 81.88694°W |
| Secondary source | Cane River |
| - location | Yancey County, North Carolina |
| - elevation | 3,553 ft (1,083 m) |
| - coordinates | 35°45′55″N 82°18′33″W / 35.76528°N 82.30917°W |
| Source confluence | |
| - location | Yancey County, North Carolina |
| - elevation | 2,021 ft (616 m) |
| - coordinates | 36°01′44″N 82°19′37″W / 36.02889°N 82.32694°W |
| Mouth | French Broad River |
| - location | Cocke County/Hamblen County line, Tennessee |
| - elevation | 1,001 ft (305 m) |
| - coordinates | 36°04′55″N 83°13′45″W / 36.08194°N 83.22917°WCoordinates: 36°04′55″N 83°13′45″W / 36.08194°N 83.22917°W |
| Length | 115 mi (185 km) |
| Basin | 1,744 sq mi (4,517 km2) |
| Discharge | for Embreeville, Tennessee |
| - average | 1,378 cu ft/s (39 m3/s) (mean for water years 1920–2005) |
| - max | 120,000 cu ft/s (3,398 m3/s) May 1901 |
| - min | 88 cu ft/s (2.5 m3/s) September 1925 |
 Nolichucky watershed
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The Nolichucky River is a 115-mile (185 km) river that flows through Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Traversing the Pisgah National Forest and the Cherokee National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the river's watershed is home to some of the highest mountains in the Appalachians, including Mount Mitchell, the highest point in the eastern United States. The river is a tributary of the French Broad River, and is impounded by Nolichucky Dam near Greeneville, Tennessee.
The Nolichucky River rises as the confluence of the North Toe River and the Cane River near the community of Huntdale, North Carolina. The stream succeeds the North Toe as the boundary between Yancey County and Mitchell County, North Carolina. Trending roughly westward, it flows along the northern base of Flattop Mountain. The gorge is especially steep on its north side. Geologically, the area is predominantly underlain by metamorphic rock of Precambrian age.
The river then enters Unicoi County, Tennessee, as it drops through a whitewater gorge, flowing between the ranges of the Bald Mountains (to the south) and the Unaka Mountains (to the north). Turning northwest, the stream is bridged by the Appalachian Trail, and then, just beyond this, by U.S. Highway 19W southwest of Erwin, Tennessee. Near Erwin, two tributary streams, South Indian Creek and North Indian Creek, join the Nolichucky River. Turning more to the north, the stream is paralleled for several miles by State Route 81, (which is also concurrent with Tennessee State Route 107 for several miles) crossing into Washington County. The river cuts between several mountains at this point, including Rich Mountain to the south and Buffalo Mountain to the north.
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