Top 15 Longest Rivers in the U.S


Cumberland River

The Cumberland River is a considerable waterway of the Southern United States. The 688-mile-long river ditches almost 18,000 squares of toward Kentucky and north-central Tennessee. Major confluent involve the Obey, Caney Fork, and Red Rivers. From its headwaters in Lechter County, to its mouth at Smithland on the Ohio River, the Cumberland River advance almost 700 miles and sewer a watershed of 18k square miles. Over 300 miles of the river flow constantly Tennessee, which accommodate 11k square miles of the watershed.

Seven major headwater river systems to the Cumberland raise in Tennessee the respect-Wolf, Harpeth, and Red River as well as the South Fork of the Cumberland, which introduced at Burnside, Kentucky. All but the Red River undertake from the south side of the Cumberland.