Seymour (Tennessee)

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Seymour
View of Seymour, below Bluff Mountain
View of Seymour, below Bluff Mountain
Location in Tennessee
Seymour (Tennessee)
Seymour
Seymour
Basic data
State : United States
State : Tennessee
Counties : Sevier County
Blount County
Coordinates : 35 ° 53 ′  N , 83 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 35 ° 53 ′  N , 83 ° 43 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
10,919 (status: 2010)
698,030 (status: 2010)
Population density : 333.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 32.7 km 2  (approx. 13 mi 2 )
Height : 285 m
Postal code : 37865
Area code : +1 865
FIPS : 47-67200
GNIS ID : 1315894

Seymour is a settlement on community-free area in Sevier County and a small part in Blount County in the US -amerikanischen State Tennessee . For statistical purposes, the place has been combined to form a census-designated place (CDP) . In 2010 Seymour had 10,919 residents.

Seymour is located in the Knoxville Metropolitan Area , the metropolitan area around the city of Knoxville .

geography

Seymour is located in eastern Tennessee not far from the French Broad River , the left headwaters of the Tennessee River , which over the Ohio belongs to the Mississippi basin.

The geographical coordinates of Seymour are 35 ° 53'26 "north latitude and 83 ° 43'29" west longitude. The local area extends over an area of ​​32.7 km².

Neighboring towns to Seymour are Sevierville (14 miles east), Pigeon Forge (28 miles southeast), Walland (14 miles southwest), Eagleton Village (20.7 miles southwest), Alcoa (15 miles in the same direction ) and Rockford (13.7 miles west southwest).

Knoxville city ​​center is 11.5 miles northwest. The nearest other major cities are Lexington , Kentucky (295 km northwest), Charlotte , North Carolina (356 km east-southeast), Greenville , South Carolina (255 km southeast), Atlanta , Georgia (307 km south), Chattanooga (198 km southwest) , Tennessee's capital Nashville (308 km west), Bowling Green in Kentucky (350 km northwest) and Kentucky's largest city Louisville (401 km northwest).

traffic

The US Highways 441 runs from northwest to southeast through Seymour. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

The nearest airport is McGhee Tyson Airport, 30 km west southwest of Knoxville.

population

According to the 2010 census , Seymour had 10,919 people in 4,266 households. The population density was 333.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.56 people lived in each of the 4,266 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.2 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.7 percent of the population.

23.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.5 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 58,150  USD . The per capita income was $ 24,061. 7.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved December 19, 2014
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on December 19, 2014

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