Abrams Creek is a
creek
A creek in North America and elsewhere, such as Australia, is a stream that is usually smaller than a river. In the British Isles it is a small tidal inlet.
Creek may also refer to:
* Creek people, a former name of Muscogee, Native Americans
* C ...
in
Blount County,
Tennessee
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. Its headwaters are in
Cades Cove
Cades Cove is an isolated valley located in the Tennessee section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The valley was home to numerous settlers before the formation of the national park. Cades Cove, the single most popular destination ...
, and it is a tributary of the
Little Tennessee River
The Little Tennessee River (known locally as the Little T) is a tributary of the Tennessee River that flows through the Blue Ridge Mountains from Georgia, into North Carolina, and then into Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. It dra ...
.
Cherokee
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chief Old Abraham ("Abram").[ Visitors swim and fish in the creek. The creek was deliberately poisoned in 1957 to kill fish in potential competition with ]rainbow trout
The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributary, tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia. The steelhead (sometimes called steelhead trout) is an Fish migration#Classification, ...
; many fish species were extirpated from the river and have never recovered.
Variant names
According to the Geographic Names Information System
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, it has also been known historically as:
Course
Abrams Creek begins at the confluence of Anthony Creek and Left Prong Anthony Creek west of Cold Water Knob, in Blount County, Tennessee
Blount County is a County (United States), county located in the East Tennessee Grand Divisions of Tennessee, Grand Division of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 135,280. The count ...
and then flows generally west to join the Little Tennessee River in Chilhowee Lake
Chilhowee Dam is a hydroelectric dam located in Blount County, Tennessee, Blount and Monroe County, Tennessee, Monroe counties, Tennessee, United States, between river mile 33 and 34 on the Little Tennessee River. Construction began in 1955 and wa ...
approximately five miles north of Calderwood.
Watershed
Abrams Creek drains of area, receives about 62.7 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 254.58, and is about 94% forested.
See also
*List of rivers of Tennessee
This is a list of rivers of the U.S. state of Tennessee:
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Tennessee ultimately flow to the Gulf of Mex ...
References
Rivers of Tennessee
Rivers of Blount County, Tennessee
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