The Wolf River is a small river of West Tennessee and Mississippi. It rises near Holly Springs, Mississippi and flows northwest into Tennessee, draining a large portion of Memphis and northern and eastern Shelby County before entering the Mississippi River near the northern end of Mud Island, a relatively large Mississippi River island located just north of downtown Memphis on the Tennessee side of the channel.
The WolfRiver is a small alluvial river of West Tennessee and North Mississippi, whose confluence with the Mississippi River was the site of various Chickasaw, French, Spanish and American communities and forts that eventually became Memphis, Tennessee.
Note: This river should not be confused with the WolfRiver of Middle Tennessee which flows along the Cumberland Plateau nor should its headwaters in North Mississippi be confused with the estuarine WolfRiver that flows past Pass Christian, Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico via St.
The WolfRiver area is home to deer, otter, mink, bobcat, fox, coyote, turkey and a wide variety of waterfowl.
The WolfRiver of Middle Tennessee rises on the Cumberland Plateau at the confluence of its three forks.
It crosses briefly into Clinton County, Kentucky where its water becomes slack due to the impoundment of Dale Hollow Dam on the Obey River; in fact, its confluence with the Obey is essentially located at a corner comprised of Pickett County, Tennessee, Clay County, Tennessee, and Clinton County, Kentucky.
This stream is not to be confused with the WolfRiver of West Tennessee which flows into the Mississippi at Memphis.
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