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The county is situated in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, a range characterized by long, narrow ridges alternating with similarly shaped valleys. Prominent ridges in Union County include Copper Ridge, Hinds Ridge, and Lone Mountain. The southern end of Clinch Mountain forms part of the county's border with Grainger County to the east.
Union County (kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Tennessee) Usage on ce.wikipedia.org Юнион (гуо, Теннесси) Usage on cy.wikipedia.org Union County, Tennessee; Rhestr o Siroedd Tennessee; Usage on de.wikipedia.org Liste der Countys in Tennessee; Union County (Tennessee) Maynardville; Vorlage:Navigationsleiste Orte im Union County (Tennessee)
To defend the new county, its supporters retained the services of Horace Maynard (1814–1882), a Knoxville-area attorney and later U.S. Postmaster General. After Maynard successfully defended the new county in litigation proceedings, Liberty was renamed "Maynardville" in his honor. [14] [15] Union County was formally recognized in 1856. [16]
Tennessee covers roughly 42,143 square miles (109,150 km 2), of which 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), or 2.2%, is water. It is the 16th smallest state in terms of land area. The state is about 440 miles (710 km) long from east to west and 112 miles (180 km) wide from north to south.
Big Ridge State Park is a state park in Union County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The park consists of 3,687 acres (14.92 km 2 ) on the southern shore of the Norris Reservoir , an impoundment of the Clinch River created by the completion of Norris Dam in 1936.
Wallen Ridge (also called Wallens Ridge) is a ridge in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Virginia. [ 1 ] Wallen Ridge was named after a pioneer who explored the area in the 1760s.
Plainview is a city in Union County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,125 at the 2010 census, up from 1,866 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area. Plainview is located in the southern part of the county, south of Maynardville, the county seat.
SR 170 begins in Anderson County in Oak Ridge as Edgemore Road at a trumpet interchange with SR 62 (Illinois Avenue), right across the Clinch River from the town of Solway.It then heads northeast as an improved 2-lane highway, paralleling the Clinch and passing by several golf courses and apartments before coming to an intersection with Melton Lake Drive, just after passing Haw Ridge Park.