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Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States, on the Tennessee River. [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]
The Tennessee River is a 652 mi (1,049 km) long river located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. Flowing through the states of Tennessee , Alabama , Mississippi , Kentucky , it begins at the confluence of French Broad and Holston rivers at Knoxville , and drains into the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky .
Knox County is a county 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.
The valleys of East Tennessee, such as the area west of Knoxville accessed by Kingston Pike, did have plantations, a few of whose houses still remain. And the Tennessee River was not as navigable at Knoxville as it was further downstream, so, other than the roads, the city remained comparatively isolated until the railroads reached the city in ...
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
Tennessee River: 65.7 mi (105.6 km) Flintville: Forked Deer River: Obion River: Dyersburg: French Broad River: Tennessee River: 219 mi (352 km) Knoxville: Green River: Buffalo River: 21.1 mi (34.0 km) Waynesboro: Harpeth River: Cumberland River: 115 mi (185 km) Franklin: Hatchie River: Mississippi River: 238 mi (383 km) Bolivar: Hickman Creek ...
The Iroquoian-speaking Cherokee migrated into the area from the northeast, making the eastern Ohio River valley and Appalachians down into South Carolina their historic territory. [32] In the 1700s, a Cherokee village was located just west of the main cave entrance, before the people were pushed out by encroaching Anglo-American settlers. [34]
Knoxville: Henley Street Bridge over the Tennessee River: Main Street (east)/Cumberland Avenue (west) - University of Tennessee, West Knoxville: Former southern end of US 11/US 70/SR 1 concurrency: I-40 / I-275 – Nashville, Asheville, NC, Lexington, KY: I-40 exit 388; I-275 exit 0A: SR 62 west (Western Avenue) – Karns, Oak Ridge