Lower Potters Falls is an 18-foot waterfall on Crooked Fork Creek in Morgan County, Tennessee, in the Southwestern Appalachians region. It lies about 9.5 miles northwest of Coalfield and roughly 37.7 miles west of Knoxville as the crow flies.
At 18 feet it is on the modest side for Tennessee, where the typical waterfall with a recorded height stands around 30 feet; it ranks 233rd of 332. The tallest single drop is 12 feet. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 2 drops.
The Southwestern Appalachians are the Cumberland Plateau and its escarpments, a sandstone tableland covered in oak and mixed mesophytic forest and cut by deep gorges. Creeks pour off the plateau rim over sandstone caprock into gorges, creating many tall, dramatic falls. Crooked Fork Creek carries 3 recorded waterfalls; the biggest of them reaches 20 feet.
Morgan County holds 14 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Shannon Falls, a 20-foot block waterfall, is under a mile away. Lamance Falls, a 20-foot punchbowl waterfall, is under a mile away. Debord Falls, a 12-foot block waterfall, is about 6.9 miles away.
Lower Potters Falls is located at 36.0819° N, 84.5778° 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 position was verified on aerial imagery. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.