Barren Creek Falls is a waterfall on Barren Creek in DeKalb County, Tennessee, in the Interior Plateau region, with a total height of about 35 feet. It lies about 11.1 miles southeast of Smithville and roughly 39.1 miles east of Murfreesboro as the crow flies.
At 35 feet it is taller than the typical Tennessee waterfall of about 30 feet, ranking 123rd of 332 with a recorded height. The water comes down as a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 2 drops.
The Interior Plateau is a rolling limestone landscape of pasture, oak-hickory woodland and cedar glades in Kentucky and Tennessee, riddled with springs, sinkholes and caves. Waterfalls drop over limestone ledges and in karst valleys.
There are 6 recorded waterfalls in DeKalb County. Gar Island Cascade, 50 feet high, is under a mile away. Klaylee Falls, a cascade waterfall, is about 1.9 miles away. Badger Flat Falls, a 20-foot plunge waterfall, is about 3 miles away.
Barren Creek Falls is located at 35.8337° N, 85.6919° W. The listing is based on the World Waterfall Database, one of the sources compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey in its inventory of waterfalls and rapids of the conterminous United States. The creek name is confirmed against the federal Geographic Names Information System. The exact position has not yet been verified on aerial imagery, so treat the map pin as approximate. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.