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West Tennessee sits on top of an artesian aquifer. This aquifer is the main source of water for Memphis and Shelby County, as well as many other communities. In the Memphis area and areas along the bluffs, the loess and gravel serves as a cap over the sand making up the aquifer. The rest of West Tennessee serves as a recharge area for the aquifer.
The reach of the Tennessee River that flows northward to Kentucky from Mississippi and Alabama demarcates the boundary between Middle and West Tennessee starting from the northern border of Hardin County, which is bisected by the Tennessee River but is located wholly in West Tennessee. The assignments of counties can be changed by the state ...
Combined statistical area Population 2009 estimates 1 Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia: 1,666,566 2 Knoxville-Morristown-Sevierville-La Follette: 1,053,627 3 Chattanooga-Cleveland-Athens: 690,400 4 Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol: 503,010 5 Jackson-Humboldt: 163,097 6 Martin-Union City: 71,704
The Jackson, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties - Madison, Chester, Gibson, Crockett - in western Tennessee, anchored by the city of Jackson. As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 180,509. [1]
A bird's eye view of Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee 1870. This area was occupied by the historic Chickasaw people at the time of European encounter. They were pushed out by European-American settlers under various treaties with the United States, in actions authorized by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and ratified by the US Senate.
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All three cities are located in Northeast Tennessee, while Bristol has a twin city of the same name in Virginia. The Tri-Cities region was formerly a single Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA); due to the U.S. Census Bureau 's revised definitions of urban areas in the early 2000s, it is now a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with two ...