Mill Creek Cascades is a waterfall on Mill Creek in Putnam County, Tennessee, in the Interior Plateau region, with a total height of about 50 feet. It lies about 3.2 miles east of Dodson Branch and roughly 60 miles northeast of Murfreesboro as the crow flies.
At 50 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 78th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. The water comes down as a horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock as it falls.
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. Mill Creek carries 4 recorded waterfalls; the biggest of them reaches 200 feet.
There are 8 recorded waterfalls in Putnam County. Waterloo Falls, a 35-foot block waterfall, is under a mile away. Spring Falls, is about 3.3 miles away. Wash Morgan Falls, is about 3.5 miles away.
Mill Creek Cascades is located at 36.3024° N, 85.4758° 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 position was verified on aerial imagery. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.