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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 ...
The Chattanooga, TN-GA metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, is an area consisting of six counties – three in southeast Tennessee (Hamilton, Marion, and Sequatchie) and three in northwest Georgia (Catoosa, Dade, and Walker) – anchored by the city of Chattanooga.
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Founders Hall in June 2007. A wide variety of higher education institutions can be found in Chattanooga and nearby. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is the second largest campus of the University of Tennessee System, with a student population of over 11,587 as of 2017–18 school year. [271]
Chattanooga Metropolitan Area; Chicago metropolitan area (parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin) Cincinnati metropolitan area (parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky) Columbus-Auburn-Opelika (GA-AL) Combined Statistical Area (parts of Georgia and Alabama) Delaware Valley (parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland)
The three regions are geographically and culturally distinct. [9] East Tennessee's landscape is dominated by the Appalachian mountain chain, including the Great Smoky Mountains on the eastern border of the state, the ridge-and-valley region where East Tennessee's principal cities (Knoxville, Chattanooga, and the Tri-Cities) are located, and the rugged Cumberland Mountains.
I-75 enters Tennessee on the eastern side of East Ridge, a southern suburb of Chattanooga. Less than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) into Tennessee is an interchange with US 41 (unsigned US 76 ). About a mile (1.6 km) later, at exit 2, is a three-way interchange with the eastern terminus of I-24 , which runs west into downtown Chattanooga and to Nashville .
Its county seat is Chattanooga, located along the Tennessee River. [4] The county was named for Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury. Hamilton County is one of 95 counties within Tennessee. [5] Hamilton County is part of the Chattanooga, TN-GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was created on October 25, 1819. [6]
[12]: 141 In 1841, Tennessee state senator (and later U.S. president) Andrew Johnson introduced legislation in the Tennessee Senate calling for the creation of a separate state in East Tennessee. The proposed state would have been known as " Frankland " and would have invited like-minded mountain counties in Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina ...