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Home About Jeff Co Geography & Topography List of Communities in Jefferson County
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Extracted from Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research in Jefferson County, Tennessee, copyright © 1995 Billie R. McNamara.  All rights reserved.  Supplemented periodically as new information is located.  Additions and corrections are welcome via the Contact Us link on this Web site.


Dandridge, the county seat, was organized in 1793.  It has long been promoted as the second-oldest city in Tennessee.  Morris' Tennessee Gazetteer lists four post offices in Jefferson County in 1834:  Dandridge, Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City), New Market, and Oak Grove.

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Eastin Morris, Tennessee Gazetteer or Topographical Dictionary, Nashville, TN: W. H. Hunt & Co., 1834; reprint ed. (with Matthew Rhea's 1832 map), Nashville: Gazetteer Press, 1971.
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The county's newest incorporated city is Baneberry.  New Market, White Pine, and Jefferson City are also incorporated cities.  Major unincorporated communities are Strawberry Plains, Talbott, and Chestnut Hill.  The city of Morristown, which was included in Jefferson County until Hamblen County was formed in 1870, attempted annexation proceedings across the Jefferson County boundary near the Talbott community in the late 20th Century.

Other towns and settlements in the county are shown in the table below.  Please note that some of those listed became part of Hamblen County when it formed in 1870.  Small communities in the county were usually named by their residents for nearby geographic features, first settlers, or large farms.

Locations marked with the symbol ¤ had/have a post office.

Ailey's Chapel Fairview Heights Long Creek
(Leadvale) ¤
Sandy Ridge ¤
Alena ¤ Fews ¤ Lost Creek Shady Grove ¤
Anderson Mill Fielden ¤ Lowell ¤ Shrader
Bailey's
(also Sockless)
Fielden Store Lucilla ¤ Slaty Point ¤
Baneberry Finchum Store Mansfield Gap Snoddyville
(Wittsville) ¤
Bates Finley Gap McBee's Ferry ¤ Sockless
Beaver Creek ¤ Flat Gap / Flatgap ¤ McCampbell's Chapel Springvale / Springdale ¤
Belmont Four Points Mill Springs ¤ Stony Bluff ¤
"The Bent" (Bend of the Holston)
(Strawberry Plains)
Fox's Store Morristown ¤ Sugar Forks
Bent Creek ¤ Franklin Mill Mossy Creek
(Jefferson City) ¤
Sugar Hollow
Blackoak Grove French Broad ¤ Mt. Horeb ¤ Swann's
Blue Springs French Mill Mount's Crossroads
(Piedmont) ¤
Swannsylvania
Branners Mill Friends' Station ¤ Mouth of Chucky ¤ Sweet Gum Bend
(Beaver Creek)
Brimers Gobbler's Knob Muddy Creek Talbott's Mills
(Talbott) ¤
Carsonville
(Jefferson City)
Grant's Chapel Mutton Hollow Talbott's Station ¤
Cedar Grove Gravelly Hill Nance's Grove Tate Mill
Cheek's Crossroads
(Russellville)
Gravely ¤ Nebraska ¤ Taylor's Bend
Cherry Hill Greenhill Nicholson's Mills ¤ Texanna ¤
Chestnut Grove Green Vale ¤ Nina ¤ Thornburg ¤
Chestnut Hill ¤ Hall's Corner Oak Grove ¤ Trion ¤
Chucky Bend ¤ Harle Academy
(Leadvale) ¤
Oakland Tuckahoe
(Cynthiana) ¤
Chunn's Store ¤ Haworth Bend Panther Springs ¤ Tucker Town
(New Market)
Collier's Corner Hickory Parrott's Underwood Store
Cook Mill Hickory Ridge ¤ Patterson Hollow Whitesburg(h) ¤
Cox's Store Hills / Hills Mill Piedmont ¤ Willardtown
(see Woolardtown)
Cynthiana Hinchey Hollow Piney Williams Gap
Dandridge ¤ Hodges ¤ Pleasant Grove Witts Foundry ¤
Dandridge Crossing
(White Pine)
Hunnicutt Mill Pleasant Hill Wittsville ¤
Deep Springs Indian Creek Quaker Valley
(Rocky Valley)
Woolardtown
Delia ? Indian Ridge Rankins Depot  
Dickey's Jaybird Hill
(derogatory, yet still in use)
Reidtown  
Dinwoody Mill Jefferson City ¤ Ridgewood  
Dohertyville ¤ Kansas ¤ River Bend ¤  
Douglas Estates Keister Riverview  
Dumplin ¤ Kimbrough Crossroads Rock Town  
Dumplin Mill Lake View Rocky Valley  
Edna ¤ Lawson Chapel Rushy Springs  
Emmanuel ¤ Leadvale ¤ Russell Gap  
Fair Garden Leonidas ¤ Russellville ¤  
 

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