The Piney River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
accessed June 8, 2011 tributary of the Duck River in

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in the

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. Via the Duck River, the

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, and the

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, it is part of the

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watershed. The headwater tributaries of the Piney River rise in

Dickson County, Tennessee Dickson County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 54,315. Its county seat is Charlotte, Tennessee, Charlotte. Dickson County is part o ...

, near the city of Dickson. Dickson is located on the "Tennessee Valley Divide", which corresponds for some distance with the downtown's Main Street. The western part of the town, the part in the Tennessee Valley (as opposed to the Cumberland Valley), is drained by the East Piney River, a tributary to the Piney. The city lakes, formerly a water supply source and the site of an early electrical power plant even before this, are on a Piney River tributary, as was a former city sewer plant, which was closed when a larger water intake was built further down on the Piney. The upper reaches of the Piney were inadequate for the area's needs, and a pipeline to the

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in the north end of the county has now been completed, relieving the Piney of the burden of supplying the water needs to a growing community that threatened soon to exhaust it. The West and East Piney rivers flow together near the community of Mount Sinai; this confluence marks the true head of the stream. The stream flows from this point south-southeast into Hickman County, where it meets the waters of the Duck River a few miles west-northwest of Centerville. The Piney's major tributary in Hickman County is Mill Creek, a scenic stream which is frequently stocked with

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by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. In August 2021 a rain system produced up to of rain in the area within 24 hours. The resulting flash flooding was responsible for more than twenty deaths.

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USGS WaterData: Stream Gauge Piney River at Vernon, TN

NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction at Vernon, TN
{{authority control Rivers of Tennessee Rivers of Dickson County, Tennessee Rivers of Hickman County, Tennessee

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