Abrams Creek (Tennessee)

{{Short description|Stream in Tennessee, USA}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox river

| name = Abrams Creek

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| name_other = Tributary to Little Tennessee River

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| image = Abrams Creek Near Trailhead.JPG

| image_caption = Abrams Creek near Trailhead

| image_alt = Abrams Creek

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| map_size = 300

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| pushpin_map = USA Tennessee#USA

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Abrams Creek mouth

| pushpin_map_alt = Map of Abrams Creek mouth location

| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = United States

| subdivision_type2 = State

| subdivision_name2 = Tennessee

| subdivision_type3 = County

| subdivision_name3 = Blount

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| length = {{convert|27.60|mi|km|abbr=on}}{{cite web |title=ArcGIS Web Application |url=https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ada349b90c26496ea52aab66a092593b |website=epa.maps.arcgis.com |publisher=US EPA |access-date=11 June 2021}}

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| discharge1_location = Little Tennessee River

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| discharge1_avg = {{convert|215.53|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}} at mouth with Little Tennessee River{{cite web |title=Abrams Creek Watershed Report |url=https://watersgeo.epa.gov/watershedreport/?comid=19718865 |website=US EPA Geoviewer |publisher=US EPA |access-date=11 June 2021}}

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| source1 = confluence of Anthony Creek and Left Prong Anthony Creek

| source1_location = west of Cold Water Knob

| source1_coordinates = {{coord|35|35|20|N|083|45|28|W|display=inline}}{{cite web |title=GNIS Detail - Abrams Creek |url=https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:::NO::P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1304758,Abrams%20Creek |website=geonames.usgs.gov |publisher=US Geological Survey |access-date=11 June 2021}}

| source1_elevation = {{convert|2,440|ft|abbr=on}}{{cite web |title=Get Maps |url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#15/35.5859/-83.7677 |website=USGS Topoview |publisher=US Geological Survey |access-date=11 June 2021 |language=en}}

| mouth = Little Tennessee River

| mouth_location = about 5 miles north of Calderwood, Tennessee

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|35|33|20|N|083|59|56|W|display=inline,title}}

| mouth_elevation = {{convert|874|ft|abbr=on}}{{cite web |title=Get Maps |url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#15/35.5512/-84.0021 |website=USGS Topoview |publisher=US Geological Survey |access-date=11 June 2021 |language=en}}

| progression = Little Tennessee River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of Mexico

| river_system = Ohio River

| basin_size = {{convert|87.14|sqmi}}

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| tributaries_left = Left Prong Anthony Creek, Maywood Creek, Sea Branch, Maple Branch, McCaulley Branch, Cades Branch, Whistling Branch, Mill Creek, More Licker Branch, Law Branch, McCully Branch, Pardon Branch, Mill Branch, Shoofly Branch, Huckleberry Branch, Panther Creek

| tributaries_right = Anthony Creek, Green Branch, Crooked Arm Branch, Harrison Branch, Marthas Branch, Feezell Branch, Tater Branch, Arbutus Branch, Stony Branch, Kreider Branch, Oak Flats Branch, Mill Branch, Buck Shank Branch, Kingfisher Creek, Bell Branch, Mill Creek

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| bridges = Cades Cove Loop Road, Sparks Lane, Hyatt Lane, Cades Cove Loop Road, US 129

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Abrams Creek is a creek in Blount County, Tennessee. Its headwaters are in Cades Cove, and it is a tributary of the Little Tennessee River.{{cite book|author=Vicki Rozema|title=Footsteps of the Cherokees, 2nd ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gfic5eOnNDwC&pg=PA171|year=2007|publisher=John F. Blair|isbn=978-0-89587-421-4|page=171}} It is named after the Chilhowee Cherokee chief Old Abraham ("Abram"). Visitors swim and fish in the creek.{{cite book|author=Margaret Littman|title=Moon Tennessee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ueryAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA411|date=19 March 2013|publisher=Avalon Travel|isbn=978-1-61238-150-3|page=411}} The creek was deliberately poisoned in 1957 to kill fish in potential competition with rainbow trout; many fish species were extirpated from the river and have never recovered.{{cite book|author1=John Peine|author2=Samab Foundation|title=Ecosystem Management for Sustainability: Principles and Practices Illustrated by a Regional Biosphere Reserve Cooperative|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PElLQwiWFK4C&pg=PA50|year=1998|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-57444-053-9|page=50}}{{cite book |author1=Kenneth C. Dodd |author2=C. Kenneth Dodd |title=The Amphibians of Great Smoky Mountains National Park |date=2004 |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |isbn=9781572332751 |page=71-72}}