Camden, Tennessee Camden, Tennessee Location of Camden, Tennessee Location of Camden, Tennessee State Tennessee Camden is a town/city in Benton County, Tennessee, United States.
The populace was 3,582 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Benton County. Native Americans were living in the Camden region as early as the Archaic reconstruction(8000-1000 BC).
The first European pioneer appeared in the Benton County region around 1818, shortly after (and probably before) the county was purchased from the Chickasaw.
Camden has its roots as a stopover along the stage coach route between Nashville and Memphis.
Initially known as "Tranquility", the improve had attained the name "Camden" by the 1830s, a name influenced by the Revolutionary War-era Battle of Camden. When Benton County was created in 1835, Camden was chosen as the county seat.
The City of Camden was officially incorporated in 1838. It was near Camden where nation music stars Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins lost their lives in a plane crash on March 5, 1963.
Camden is situated along Cypress Creek, near the creek's undivided confluence with the Kentucky Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River (the initial lower 10 miles (16 km) of the creek were entirely engulfed by the lake with the culmination of Kentucky Dam in 1944).
The region is characterized by low hills to the north and west and wetlands to the east, the latter of which are largely protected by the Camden Wildlife Management Area.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.7 square miles (14.7 km2), all of it land. The Tennessee River near Camden In the city, the populace was spread out with 20.1% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 24.5% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 26.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Agriculture is meaningful to the economy of Camden and Benton County.
Camden is a bedroom improve for employees of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Du - Pont titanium dioxide manufacturing plant in close-by New Johnsonville.
The William Thompson House is one of four sites in Camden listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Duck River Unit Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, 13 miles (21 km) southeast Camden Speedway Camden is served by the Benton County School System.
Camden Junior High School Camden Central High School The Camden Chronicle Route 70 joins Camden to Nashville to the east and Memphis to the west.
Tennessee State Route 191 joins Camden to Eva and to Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park to the northeast and Interstate 40 to the southeast.
70 in the half of Camden, joins the region with Paris and to Kentucky to the north.
Camden town/city website.
Tennessee Blue Book, 2005-2006, pp.
Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, Certified Population of Tennessee Incorporated Municipalities and Counties, State of Tennessee official website, 14 July 2011.
Jonathan Kennon Smith, A History of Benton County, Tennessee to 1900 (Memphis, Tenn.: J.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Camden city, Tennessee".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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City of Camden official website Municipalities and communities of Benton County, Tennessee, United States County seat: Camden Camden This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties.
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