Copperas Falls is a 70-foot waterfall on Copperas Branch in Coffee County, Tennessee, in the Interior Plateau region. It lies about 4.1 miles north of Tullahoma and roughly 30.9 miles south of Murfreesboro as the crow flies.
At 70 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 49th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. The tallest single drop is 45 feet. By form it is 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.
Coffee County holds 15 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Little Copperas Falls, is under a mile away. Cascade Falls, a 15-foot plunge waterfall, is about 1 miles away. Ovoca Falls, a 65-foot tiered waterfall, is about 1.2 miles away.
Copperas Falls is located at 35.4202° N, 86.2215° 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.