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Website. www .knoxvilletn .gov. Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States. [15] As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, [16] making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third-most-populous city after Nashville and Memphis. [17] It is ...
The History of Knoxville, Tennessee, began with the establishment of James White's Fort on the Trans-Appalachian frontier in 1786. [1] The fort was chosen as the capital of the Southwest Territory in 1790, and the city, named for Secretary of War Henry Knox, was platted the following year. [1] Knoxville became the first capital of the State of ...
423, 865. The Knoxville metropolitan area, commonly known as Greater Knoxville, [2] is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) centered on Knoxville, Tennessee, the third largest city in Tennessee and the largest city in East Tennessee. It is the third largest metropolitan area in Tennessee. In 2020, the Knoxville metro area (the MSA as defined ...
Website. knoxcounty .org. Knox County is located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 478,971, [3] making it the third-most populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Knoxville, [4] which is the third-most populous city in Tennessee. Knox County is included in the Knoxville metropolitan area.
East Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of Tennessee defined in state law. Geographically and socioculturally distinct, it comprises approximately the eastern third of the U.S. state of Tennessee. East Tennessee consists of 33 counties, 30 located within the Eastern Time Zone and three counties in the Central Time Zone, namely ...
The Founding of Knoxville. (East Tennessee Historical Society, 1941.) History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together With an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of From Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee. (The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Nashville, 1887.) Hooper, Ed. Images of America: Knoxville.
Fountain City Lake. Fountain City is a neighborhood in northern Knoxville, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.Although not a census-designated place (it is grouped with Knoxville for census-purposes), the populations of the two ZIP codes that serve Fountain City— 37918 and 37912— were 36,815 and 18,695, respectively, as of the 2000 U.S. census.
Kingston Pike. / 35.94944°N 83.95500°W / 35.94944; -83.95500. Kingston Pike is a highway in Knox County, Tennessee, United States, that connects Downtown Knoxville with West Knoxville, Farragut, and other communities in the western part of the county. The road follows a merged stretch of U.S. Route 11 (US 11) and US 70.