Clinch River

Clinch River
Clinch River
	The Clinch River at Speers Ferry in Scott County, Virginia
	Map of the Clinch River
Location
Country	United States
State	Virginia, Tennessee
Physical characteristics
Source	Buckhorn Mountain near Tazewell, Virginia
• coordinates	37°08′29″N 81°27′41″W / 37.14139°N 81.46139°W
• elevation	2,760 ft (840 m)
Mouth	Tennessee River at Kingston, Tennessee
• coordinates	35°51′48″N 84°31′54″W / 35.86333°N 84.53167°W
• elevation	741 ft (226 m)
Length	337 mi (542 km)
Basin size	4,413 sq mi (11,430 km2)
Discharge
• location	Grissom Island near Tazewell, Tennessee, 159.8 miles (257.2 km) above the mouth(mean for water years 1918-1983)
• average	2,100 cu ft/s (59 m3/s)(mean for water years 1918-1983)
• minimum	108 cu ft/s (3.1 m3/s); September 1925
• maximum	98,100 cu ft/s (2,780 m3/s); April 1977
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Little River, Beaver Creek
• right	Guest River, North Fork Clinch River, Powell River, Coal Creek, Poplar Creek, Emory River

The Clinch River is a river that flows southwest for more than 300 miles (480 km) through the Great Appalachian Valley in the U.S. states of Virginia and Tennessee, gathering various tributaries, including the Powell River, before joining the Tennessee River in Kingston, Tennessee.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Clinch River
^ This figure was obtained by adding the length of the Tennessee section of the river, indicated on the USGS topo map Looneys Gap (1:24,000) as just over 202 miles, to the length of the Virginia section, indicated as 135 miles at this Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries website Archived 2015-03-23 at the Wayback Machine.
^ U.S. Geological Survey, "Introduction to the Upper Tennessee River Basin," 11 January 2013. Accessed: 5 June 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d United States Geological Survey, Water Resources Data Tennessee: Water Year 1983, Water Data Report TN-83-1, p. 131. Gaging station 03528000.