Pistol Creek

Pistol Creek is a 13-mile-long (21 km) tributary of the Little River, located entirely within Blount County, Tennessee.

On the south side of Maryville, the creek passes the ruins of an early 20th-century dam and mill race that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

It then hooks around the downtown area and contributes, along with Brown Creek, to the impounded Greenbelt lake on the north side of town.

From the Greenbelt it flows north into Alcoa and joins the Little River a mile south of Rockford.

Pistol Creek, after a survey by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, was considered to be impaired due to E.Coli and siltation.