Cumberland River

river in Kentucky and Tennessee, United States

The Cumberland River is a major waterway of the Southern United States. The 688-mile (1,107 km)-long[1] river goes through 18,000 square miles (47,000 km2) of southern Kentucky and north-central Tennessee. The river flows generally west from a source in the Appalachian Mountains. It merges with the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky, and the mouth of the Tennessee River.

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  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2017-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 8, 2011

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