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Kingsport is a city in Sullivan and Hawkins counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census , its population was 55,442. [ 6 ] Lying along the Holston River , Kingsport is commonly included in what is known as the Mountain Empire, which spans a portion of southwest Virginia and the mountainous counties in northeastern Tennessee .
Kingsport, Tennessee: 131 Eastman Chemical Co-TN Ops 1936 1994 Allen Fossil Plant: Memphis, Tennessee: 990 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1959 2018 Watts Bar Steam Plant: Rhea County, Tennessee: 267 Tennessee Valley Authority 1942 1982 John Sevier Fossil Plant: Hawkins County, Tennessee: 880 Tennessee Valley Authority 1957 2012 Johnsonville Fossil ...
Fort Patrick Henry Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the South Fork Holston River within the city of Kingsport, in Sullivan County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.It is the lowermost of three dams on the South Fork Holston owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1950s to take advantage of the hydroelectric potential created by the regulation of river ...
The Tri-Cities is the region comprising the cities of Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol and the surrounding smaller towns and communities in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. All three cities are located in Northeast Tennessee, while Bristol has a twin city of the same name in Virginia.
The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) nuclear reactor pair used for electric power generation. It is located on a 1,770-acre (7.2 km²) site in Rhea County, Tennessee, near Spring City, between Chattanooga and Knoxville. Watts Bar supplies enough electricity for about 1.2 million households in the Tennessee Valley.
It was formed in December 2003 by the merger of the Bristol, VA MSA and Kingsport–Bristol, TN–VA MSA. As of the 2000 census , the MSA had a population of 298,494 (though a July 1, 2009, estimate placed the population at 305,629).
The population was 8,918 at the 2020 census down from 9,888 at the 2010 census, [5] due to annexation by the City of Kingsport. It is part of the Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region.
Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport cooperated with Sullivan County to build an airport on 323 acres in Sullivan County, between the three cities. In September 1937, two small runways, a terminal building, and aircraft hangar had been built and the airport saw its first airliner, an American Airlines DC-2 .