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Alcoa is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, United States.Its population was 10,978 at the 2020 census. [5] It is part of the Knoxville, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area.. As its name suggests, Alcoa was the site of a large aluminum smelting plant owned and operated by the Alcoa corporation (Aluminum Company of America).
In 2014, TDOT announced plans for improvements to the Alcoa Highway section of US 129 from I-40 to McGhee Tyson Airport in Blount County. The massive project, consisting of seven phases, called for the conversion of Alcoa Highway from a non-access-controlled highway into a full controlled-access highway (freeway). The overall project was given ...
Former State Route 429 (SR 429), also known as Airbase Road, was a south-to-north secondary highway in Blount County, Tennessee, that was 1.85 miles (3.0 km) long. Its southern terminus was at the Tennessee Air National Guard gate and the northern terminus was with US 129/SR 115 (Airport Highway). The road was decommissioned in 2009 when the ...
US 129/SR 115 in Alcoa: US 11E/US 321/SR 34/SR 93 in Greeneville: 1923: current Mostly unsigned companion route for US 411 and US 321, except for a section in Maryville SR 36: 28.6: 46.0 US 19W at the North Carolina state line in Unicoi County: US 23 at the Virginia state line in Kingsport: 1923: current SR 37: 30.98: 49.86
The Pellissippi Parkway is a major highway in Knox and Blount counties in the Knoxville metropolitan area in Tennessee that extends 19.75 miles (31.78 km) from State Route 62 at Solway to SR 33 in Alcoa.
McGhee Tyson Airport (IATA: TYS [3], ICAO: KTYS, FAA LID: TYS) is a public/military airport 12 miles (19 km) south of Knoxville, [4] in Alcoa, Tennessee.It is named for United States Navy pilot Charles McGhee Tyson, who was killed in World War I.
US 129 then travels due north, becoming known as Alcoa Highway and passing through the city of Maryville. It travels through Alcoa , passing by McGhee Tyson Airport , and then intersecting I-140 . US 129 then crosses the Tennessee River on the James E. "Buck" Karnes Bridge into Knoxville .
The highway then has an interchange with I-65 (Exit 27) before winding its way hilly terrain to enter Cornersville and coming to an intersection with US 31A/SR 11. SR 129 becomes concurrent with US 31A/SR 11 and they turn south along Main Street to pass through town before SR 129 splits off and goes east through farmland to have an intersection ...