Profile for Knoxville, Tennessee, TN

Knoxville is on the Tennessee River

Once the state capital

Public transportation: Knoxville Area Transit (See the transit and travel sections below.)

Crime: The number of violent crimes recorded by the FBI in 2003 was 1,692. The number of murders and homicides was 18. The violent crime rate was 9.7 per 1,000 people.

Filming location for:
· 1999 movie, "October Sky"
· 1996 movie, "Box of Moon Light"

Well-known residents have included:
· Quentin Tarantino, actor, director, writer
· James Agee, writer
· Patricia Neal, actress
· Alex Haley, author

Coffee: National and regional coffee companies with outlets here include Panera Bread, Starbucks

Local festivals include:

• Tennessee Valley Fair - Sept. 7-16, 2007
• Dogwood Arts Festival - April 11-29, 2007
• Pellissippi State Hot Air Balloon Festival - Sept. 28-29, 2007
• Oktoberfest - Oct. 5, 2007

Performing arts: Knoxville Opera, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

Nearby parks & recreation: House Mountain State Natural Area

Knoxville attractions: Knoxville Zoo

Sports teams: Tennessee Smokies (minor league baseball), Ice Bears (Southern Professional Hockey League)

Historic sites and museums: East Tennessee Historical Society Museum, McClung Museum, James White Fort, Bleak House (Confederate Memorial Hall)

Colleges and universities: University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Johnson Bible College

Support for libraries: Local government funding for the local library system, in fiscal years 2001-2002, was on par with the national average. (See library links below.)

Gays & lesbians
National index: 100
Local index: 107

Quotes:
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. . . . There was still daylight, shining softly and with a tarnish like the lining of a shell; and the carbon lamps lifted at the corners were on in the light, and the locusts were started, and the fireflies were out, and a few frogs were flopping in the dewy grass . . . from low in the dark . . . the regular yet spaced noises of the crickets, each a sweet cold silver noise, threenoted, like the slipping each time of three matched links of a small chain.
-- Knoxville: Summer 1915
James Agee

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• Knox County data
• Fastest-growing counties in Tennessee
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• Historical census records (Ancestry.com)

Sections below provide additional information and links about Knoxville demographics, travel and tourism, nearby airports, cemeteries, the Knox County economy, education, environment, genealogy, government, historic sites, Knoxville area jobs, libraries, maps, museums, newspapers and other media, nonprofit groups, real estate, recreation, religion, transportation, and weather in the 37902 ZIP code.

(Also see local map below.)

• Knoxville city government
• Knox County government
• Knoxville Chamber of Commerce

12% of Knoxville residents report German ancestry, and 11% report Irish. For more info on local ancestry groups, see the Knoxville ancestry & family history guide.

• Cemeteries in or near Knoxville
• Cemeteries in Knox County
• Genealogy page (TN GenWeb) for Knox County
• Libraries in or near Knoxville

Post a query on a message board:

• Knox County Ancestry forum
• GenForum

Records & databases:

• Ancestry.com - TN data
• Birth, marriage & death records
• Cemetery records
• County history catalog
• Census records (historic)
• Court, land & probate records
• Death index
• Family & local history
• Immigration records
• Military records (historic)
• Newspaper articles

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• Knoxville Opera
• Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

• Knoxville area attractions
• Knoxville museums
• Knoxville historic sites
• Knoxville area parks
• Wineries near Knoxville

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• Cemeteries in Knox County
• Cemetery record compendium
• Tennessee cemetery message boards
• National database of cemetery records
• Veteran grave locator

• Communities near Knoxville
• Nearby cities of 10,000 or more
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• Communities in Knox County

• Knoxville business guide
• Knoxville Chamber of Commerce
• Better Business Bureau
• Business licenses
• Corporate records search

• Courts in Tennessee
• Local ordinances in Tennessee (Partial selection)

• Crime in Knox County
• Arrests in Knox County

• Obituaries - search nearby newspapers
• Obituary database - Ancestry.com
• Charitable donations

• Local information on disability access
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Independent living centers in Tennessee
• National Council on Independent Living

At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Knoxville was $18,171, compared with $21,587 nationally.

• Banks
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• Current labor force
• Wage estimates
• Knox County economic census
• Knox County economic summary
• Knox County employment growth
• Knox County unemployment rate
• Tennessee economic data

25% of Knoxville residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree.

• Colleges in or near Knoxville
• Colleges in Tennessee
• Learning Disabilities Association in Tennessee
• Schools in or near Knoxville
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• School report cards
• Yearbooks (old) of Tennessee high schools

• Movies & TV shows filmed in Knoxville
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• Air pollution in Knox County
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• Land contamination in Knox County
• Nature Conservancy projects in Tennessee
• Ozone status & air pollution - American Lung Association
• Toxic chemical releases in Knox County
• Water levels & streamflow conditions in Tennessee

Knoxville festival dates:

• Tennessee Valley Fair - Sept. 7-16, 2007
• Dogwood Arts Festival - April 11-29, 2007
• Pellissippi State Hot Air Balloon Festival - Sept. 28-29, 2007
• Oktoberfest - Oct. 5, 2007

Dates often change. Check with local tourism officials to be sure.

Knoxville festival web sites:

• Dogwood Arts Festival
• Pellissippi State Hot Air Balloon Festiv
• Tennessee Valley Fair

• ePodunk festival listings
• Tennessee county fairs
• Tennessee festivals (Tennessee tourism department)
• Send us festival info for Knoxville

• Confluence of latitude & longitude near Knoxville
• Geocaches in Tennessee

• Knoxville items now on sale

• Knoxville local government Web site
• Knox County government
• Tennessee state government
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• Social Security
• Veterans affairs
• Where to write for birth, death, marriage or divorce records

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• Sports & rec
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• Knoxville medical services & health statistics

• State historical society

Historic districts in Knoxville include Forest Hills Boulevard Historic District, Fort Sanders Historic District, Fourth and Gill Historic District, Gay Street Commercial Historic District, Gibbs Drive Historic District, Jackson Avenue Warehouse District, Knoxville College Historic District, Market Square Commercial Historic District, Mechanicsville Historic District, Park City Historic District ... View historic districts

• Historic sites in or near Knoxville
• Historic sites in Tennessee
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• Museums in Tennessee
• Tennessee state archives
• Tennessee state encyclopedia
• National Historic Landmark search
• Search the Library of Congress
• Search the National Register for historic properties
• Post history questions in Knox County genealogy forum

Median rent in Knoxville, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $391.   Monthly homeowner costs, for people with mortgages, were $801.

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Libraries in Knoxville include Bonny Kate Branch Library, Burlington Branch Library, Carter Branch Library, Cedar Bluff Branch Library, Farragut Branch Library, Fountain City Branch Library, Halls Branch Library, Karns Branch Library, Lawson McGhee Library, McClung, E.Tn Hist Cent & Knox Archives ... View libraries

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Newspapers in Knoxville include Knoxville News-Sentinel

TV stations in Knoxville include WATE, WBIR, WKOP, WTNZ, WVLT.

National Public Radio programming is carried locally by WUOT.

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• Military bases in Tennessee
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• Check daily newspapers in or near Knoxville
• Search obituaries in Tennessee
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• Knoxville Chamber of Commerce
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Knox County supported George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election. For more information, see our Knoxville political report.

• Knox County Democratic party
• Tennessee Democratic party
• Tennessee Republican party
• Tennessee elections board

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The average commute time for Knoxville workers is 20 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide.

A total of 102 fatal motor vehicle accidents occurred in Knoxville between 2001 and 2003, according to reports gathered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

This is a rate of 5.9 fatal crashes per 10,000 population, which was higher than the national norm.

• Knoxville travel guide
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• Tennessee tourism bureau

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