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» For the Beech River in New Hampshire, see Beech River (New Hampshire).
The
Beech River is a stream draining the east-central portion of
West Tennessee. The Beech rises about five miles (eight km) northwest of
Lexington, Tennessee, the county seat of
Henderson County. In the same area are the headwaters of two other West Tennessee rivers, the
Big Sandy River and the Middle Fork of the
Forked Deer River. The Big Sandy, like the Beech, is part of the
Tennessee River system, whereas the Forked Deer system drains into the
Mississippi River.
Geography
The Beech flows southeast into the town of Lexington and then primarily eastward afterwards. As is typical of most major streams in West Tennessee, much of the lower course was the subject of a
channelization project in the mid-20th century conducted largely for
agricultural purposes; this has resulted in a considerable loss of
wetlands. The stream crosses into
Decatur County, flowing in between the only two sizeable towns of that county,
Parsons, the largest town, and
Decaturville, the county seat. The large
embayment formed at the mouth of the Beech is the result of the backwaters of the
Kentucky Dam project many miles downstream on the Tennessee; the embayment reaches the outskirts of both towns. Very near the mouth of the Beech is the town of
Perryville, the county seat of the entire area when
Perry County consisted of all of what is now both Perry County and Decatur County in the early
19th century.
Beech River Dams
The Beech River system is somewhat unusual in that it and all of its major tributaries (a total of eight) are impounded, one of them twice, primarily by
dams built in the mid
20th century as part of the
Tennessee Valley Authority's Beech River Project -- Beech, Cedar, Dogwood, Lost Creek (which has no permanent reservoir), Pin Oak, Pine, Redbud, and Sycamore. The dams are purely for purposes of
flood control and
recreation, though it's possible that the relatively small volume of water they store could result in some minimal aid to
navigation on the Tennessee under some conditions. Unlike most other TVA dams, none of the Beech River dams are used for
hydropower, as the small size of the streams impounded and their relative lack of fall would make power generation impractical. Some of the lakes created are located in
Natchez Trace State Park, the largest of the
Tennessee state parks; though located many miles west of both the
Natchez Trace Parkway and the historic
Natchez Trace, this area is named for a branch of the historic Trace that bore that name in the area.
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