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Sweetwater is a city in Monroe and McMinn Counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the most populous city in Monroe County. As of the 2020 census , its population was 6,312. [ 4 ] Sweetwater is the home of the Craighead Caverns which contains the Lost Sea , the United States' largest underground lake.
The Little Tennessee River flows along Monroe County's border with Blount County to the northeast. Three artificial lakes— Tellico Lake, Chilhowee Lake, and Calderwood Lake— were developed in this section of the river. The Tellico River, a tributary of the Little Tennessee, drains much of the southwestern part of the county.
Monroe County Schools is a school district in Tennessee, serving Monroe County. Its headquarters are in Madisonville. [1] Residents of Sweetwater are served by Sweetwater City Schools for elementary through junior high school. In 2018 the district had 5,262 students in its schools.
Sweetwater City Schools is the school district of Sweetwater, Tennessee. It operates elementary through junior high school levels and includes the Monroe County section of Sweetwater and several unincorporated areas. Monroe County Schools serves the high school grade levels. [1]
3224 Sweetwater-Vonore Rd. Sweetwater: Built in 1859 12: Mialoquo Site: Mialoquo Site: October 19, 1978 : Address Restricted: Vonore: Archaeological site for 18th-century Cherokee village; now submerged by Tellico Lake 13: Monroe County Courthouse
The Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR), also known as The College System of Tennessee, operates 13 community colleges and 27 campuses of the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology (TCAT). [10] Until 2017, the TBR also operated six public universities in the state; it now only gives them administrative support.
Sweetwater Creek is a tributary stream of the Tennessee River located in McMinn, Monroe, and Loudon counties in eastern Tennessee.. The stream rises in McMinn County and flows toward the northeast, paralleling the trend of the valleys and ridges, for 29.3 miles (47.2 km) through Monroe and Loudon counties, [1] entering Watts Bar Reservoir in Loudon County at a location downstream from the city ...
A 1999 Tennessee state study of Tennessee schools found that McMinn County Schools teacher salaries were 110% of the state median (and Athens City teacher salaries were 122% of the state median), on a Tennessee Teacher Cost Index basis, ranking it in the top 17% in the state. [15] Parkinson became the head of the school system in 2018. [6]