Fancher Falls is an 80-foot waterfall on Taylor Creek in White County, Tennessee, in the Interior Plateau region. It lies about 10.1 miles northwest of Sparta and roughly 44.5 miles east of Murfreesboro as the crow flies.
At 80 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 35th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. By form it is a punchbowl, where the water is forced through a narrow gap into a large pool.
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. Taylor Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Fancher Falls is the tallest of them.
White County holds 21 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Upper Taylor Creek Falls, 25 feet high, is under a mile away. Mist Falls, an 80-foot plunge waterfall, is under a mile away. Middle Falls, a 30-foot block waterfall, is about 3.1 miles away.
Fancher Falls is located at 36.0010° N, 85.6189° 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.