Pocahontas, Tennessee | |
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Coordinates: 35°38′14″N86°02′43″W / 35.63722°N 86.04528°W Coordinates: 35°38′14″N86°02′43″W / 35.63722°N 86.04528°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Tennessee |
County | Coffee |
Elevation | 1,073 ft (327 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code(s) | 931 |
GNIS feature ID | 1315747 [1] |
Pocahontas is an unincorporated community in Coffee County, Tennessee, United States. [1]
Coffee County is a county located in the central part of the state of Tennessee, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 52,796. Its county seat is Manchester. Coffee County is part of the Tullahoma-Manchester, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is also part of Middle Tennessee, one of the three Grand Divisions of the state.
Pocahontas County is a county located in Iowa, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 7,078, making it the state's ninth-least populous county. The county seat is Pocahontas. The county was formed in 1851.
Randolph County is located between the Ozark Mountains and Arkansas Delta in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The county is named for John Randolph, a U.S. senator from Virginia influential in obtaining congressional approval of the Louisiana Purchase, which includes today's Randolph County. Created as Arkansas's 32nd county on October 29, 1835, Randolph County has two incorporated cities, including Pocahontas, the county seat and most populous city. The county is also the site of numerous unincorporated communities and ghost towns.
Pocahontas is a city in Randolph County, Arkansas, United States, along the Black River. According to the 2010 Census Bureau, the population of the city was 6,608. The city is the county seat of Randolph County.
Manchester is a city in Coffee County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 12,213 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Coffee County. The city is located halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga on Interstate 24.
Pocahontas was a Native American woman, belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia.
Thomas Stevenson Drew was the third Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas.
The Hatchie River is a 238-mile-long (383 km) river in northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee. It is of considerable geographic, cultural, and historic significance. In large measure this is because it is the only major river of West Tennessee that has never been impounded, channelized, or otherwise modified by human activity to any major degree, although several of its tributaries have. Its environs are indicative of what much of West Tennessee must have resembled prior to the time of European settlement in early 19th century.
The Tuscumbia River is a 44.4-mile-long (71.5 km) tributary of the Hatchie River in northern Mississippi and western Tennessee in the United States. It rises in Prentiss County, Mississippi, near Booneville. It flows through Alcorn County, then into McNairy County, Tennessee, where it is joined by a major tributary, Cypress Creek, and then flows into the Hatchie River, just before it reaches Hardeman County, near Pocahontas, Tennessee.
Pocahontas was a Pamunkey Algonquian chief's daughter from early American history.
Wyndham Robertson was the Acting Governor of the U.S. state of Virginia from 1836 to 1837. He also twice served multiple terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, the second series representing Richmond during the American Civil War.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Coffee County, Tennessee.
Beechgrove, also known as Beech Grove, is an unincorporated community in Coffee County, Tennessee, United States. Beechgrove is located in northwestern Coffee County at the junction of Interstate 24, U.S. Route 41, and State Route 64. Beechgrove has a post office with ZIP code 37018.
Pocahontas is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hardeman and McNairy counties, Tennessee, United States. It is eighty-three miles southeast of Memphis.
Pocahontas School is a historic school building in Pocahontas, Tennessee, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Nancy Ward Tomb is the tomb of Nancy Ward, her brother and her son in Benton, Tennessee, U.S. In 1923, a plaque reading "Princess and Prophetess of the Cherokee Nation, the Pocahontas of Tennessee, and a constant friend of the American Pioneer" was installed by the Nancy Ward Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 11, 1973.
State Route 280 is a 10.6-mile-long (17.1 km) east-west state highway in northern Coffee County, Tennessee. It serves as a connection between the communities of Beechgrove and Pocahontas.
B. Rush Bricken is an American banker and politician from the state of Tennessee. A Republican, Bricken has represented the 47th district of the Tennessee House of Representatives, based in Tullahoma and McMinnville, since 2019.
Essary Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hardeman County, Tennessee, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
Alontae Devaun Taylor is an American football cornerback for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Tennessee.