Prospect, Giles County, Tennessee

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Prospect is an unincorporated community in Giles County, Tennessee. The zip code is 38477. [1]

Unincorporated area Region of land not governed by own local government

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.

Giles County, Tennessee County in the United States

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The southern agricultural pioneer and publisher Cully Cobb was born in Prospect in 1884. [2]

Cully Alton Cobb, Sr., was an agricultural pioneer, educator, printer, journalist, and philanthropist in the American South who with his second wife, Lois Dowdle Cobb, co-founded the Cobb Institute of Archaeology on the campus of Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi.

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References

  1. ↑ "Prospect Populated Place Profile / Giles County, Tennessee Data". tennessee.hometownlocator.com.
  2. ↑ Jimmy G. Shoalmire and Roy Vernon Scott, The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership, (Jackson, Mississippi: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973), p. 1

Coordinates: 35°01′45″N87°00′11″W / 35.0293°N 87.003°W / 35.0293; -87.003

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