Machine Falls is a 60-foot waterfall on Machine Falls Branch in Coffee County, Tennessee, in the Interior Plateau region. It lies about 3.9 miles northeast of Tullahoma and roughly 32.2 miles south of Murfreesboro as the crow flies.
At 60 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 60th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. By form it is a fan, spreading out horizontally as it falls and staying in contact with the rock.
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. Busby Falls, a tiered waterfall, is under a mile away. Adams Falls, is under a mile away. Ovoca Falls, a 65-foot tiered waterfall, is about 1.3 miles away.
Machine Falls is located at 35.4129° N, 86.1791° 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.