This document discusses Clinch Mountain, a ridge located in Tennessee and Virginia that separates the Clinch River basin from the Holston River basin. It notes that when Highway 25E was realigned through Bean Station, Tennessee in the 1980s, it was necessary to cut a new, lower gap through Clinch Mountain. It also mentions that Interstate 26 was lowered at Sams Gap on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, representing the only two instances where a highway gap in the region was lowered for a new roadway. The document concludes by thanking the reader for their time.

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5. Clinch Mountain
Clinch Mountain is a mountain ridge in the U.S. states of
Tennessee and Virginia, lying in the ridge-and-valley section
of the Appalachian Mountains. From its southern terminus at
Kitts Point, which lies at the intersection of Knox, Union and
Grainger counties near Blaine, Tennessee, it runs in a
generally east-northeasterly direction to Garden Mountain
near Burke's Garden, Virginia. It separates the Clinch River
basin, to the north, and the Holston River basin, to the south.

6. Bean Station and Sams Gap
When U.S. Highway 25E was realigned into a four-lane highway northwest of
Bean Station, Tennessee in the 1980s, it was necessary to cut a new gap into the
top of Clinch Mountain, which lowered the original gap elevation by 200 feet. That
realignment, along with the lowering of Interstate 26-U.S. Highway 23 at Sams
Gap on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, are the only instances of a highway
gap in Tennessee actually lowering an original gap where a state or federal
highway was built through. (Sams Gap was lowered by 150 feet to accommodate
the new Interstate 26 highway).

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