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Time in Tennessee, as in all U.S. states, is regulated by the United States Department of Transportation. About 73 percent of the counties in the state of Tennessee lie in the Central Time Zone, mostly the western and middle grand divisions, while East Tennessee is mostly in the Eastern Time Zone except for three counties in that division. [1] [2]
In September 1995, most of the eastern portion of 615—including Chattanooga, Knoxville, and the Tri-Cities—was assigned area code 423. The dividing line between 615 and 423 mostly tracked along the boundary between the Eastern and Central Time Zones; generally, Tennessee's share of the Eastern Time Zone transferred to 423.
East Tennessee's major landforms. East Tennessee is located within three major geological divisions of the Appalachian Mountains: the Blue Ridge Mountains on the border with North Carolina in the east; the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (usually called the "Great Appalachian Valley" or "Tennessee Valley" [a]) in the center; and the Cumberland Plateau in the west, part of which is in Middle ...
Tennesseans will be able to "fall back" to standard time at 2 a.m. Nov. 5. The day will fall back one hour to be 1 a.m. Remember to "fall" back one hour at 2 a.m. this Sunday.
After the war, in late 1865, six Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army founded a secret society, later known as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). This was the first chapter. This was the first chapter. These men, John C. Lester, John B. Kennedy, James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, Richard R. Reed, and J. Calvin Jones, established the KKK on December 25 ...
All three cities are located in Northeast Tennessee, while Bristol has a twin city of the same name in Virginia. The Tri-Cities region was formerly a single Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA); due to the U.S. Census Bureau 's revised definitions of urban areas in the early 2000s, it is now a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with two ...
Maynardville is concentrated around a stretch of State Route 33, which connects the city to Knoxville 15 miles (24 km) to the southwest and Tazewell 22 miles (35 km) to the northeast. [23] State Route 61 connects Maynardville with Luttrell 8 miles (13 km) and Blaine 13 miles (21 km) to the south, and State Route 144 connects Maynardville with ...
615 and 629 (overlay) - Greater Nashville, including Murfreesboro, Mount Juliet: 615 initially split from 901 in a 1954 flash-cut. The 629 overlay for the entire area code was made effective in 2015; 731 - Jackson, Dyersburg, Union City : Initially split from 901 in 2001. 865 - Knoxville: Initially split from 423 in 1999.