Cookeville, Tennessee Cookeville, Tennessee Downtown Cookeville, viewed from Dogwood Park Downtown Cookeville, viewed from Dogwood Park Location in Putnam County and the state of Tennessee.
Location in Putnam County and the state of Tennessee.
State Tennessee Cookeville is a town/city in Putnam County, Tennessee, United States.
Its populace at the 2010 census was 30,435. It is the governmental center of county of Putnam County and home to Tennessee Technological University.
Of the twenty micropolitan areas in Tennessee, Cookeville is the largest; the Cookeville micropolitan area's 2010 Enumeration population was 106,042. Cookeville is positioned at 36 9 46 N 85 30 5 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.0 square miles (57 km2), of which 21.9 square miles (57 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) (0.77%) is water.
Located on the Highland Rim, Cookeville's altitude is a several hundred feet higher than either Nashville or Knoxville.
As a result, temperatures and humidity levels are generally slightly lower in Cookeville than in either the Nashville Basin or in the Tennessee Valley.
Three man-made lakes maintained by the Corps of Engineers are positioned near Cookeville, created to help flood control in the narrow valleys of the Cumberland Plateau: Center Hill Lake, Cordell Hull Lake, and Dale Hollow Lake.
Two lesser man-made lakes, City Lake and Burgess Falls Lake, lie along the Falling Water River, which flows through the southeastern part of the county.
Cookeville has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen climate classification: Cfa) with mostly high temperatures and evently distributed rain through the year.
Climate data for Cookeville, Tennessee Cookeville is the governmental center of county and biggest city in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee, and as such, is known as the "Hub of the Upper Cumberlands." Cookeville is positioned at the center of the workforce market region consisting of Putnam, Cumberland, De - Kalb, Jackson, Overton, Smith and White counties, with a civilian workforce force in 2013 of 103,500 jobs (roughly one-third of which are in Putnam County itself). As of June 30, 2014, there were 15 commercial banks and one credit union operating in the city, with combined deposits totaling $1.47 billion. Total retail revenue in Cookeville for 2013 were $1.39 billion. Median homehold income in Cookeville from 2010 2012 was $28,212, with a poverty rate of 35.2%, representing an increase of 13.4% from the 2007-2009 poverty rate.
This was dominantly attributable to a decline in assembly employment amid that period. The unemployment rate as of January 2017 in Putnam County was 5.9%, a 1.0% increase from December 2016. The cost of living in Cookeville is low, and the town/city ranked 8th in the United States on the Center for Regional Economic Competitivess Cost of Living Index in 2016. Education is another primary zone with nearly 2,000 employees at Tennessee Technological University and the enhance school system.
Cookeville Performing Arts Center Cookeville Performing Arts Center Cookeville is also the command posts of the Upper Cumberland Business Journal, a quarterly company journal serving the 14-county Upper Cumberland region.
Cookeville is also home one broadcast tv station, WCTE TV 22 (PBS).
Local Internet service providers include Charter Communications, Frontier Communications, and Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative which has introduced gigabit broadband internet service in Cookeville.
Cookeville is also served by thirteen FM and three AM airways broadcasts.
Tennessee Tech University's ground radio indie station operates at WTTU 88.5 FM, and National Public Radio (NPR) broadcasts at WHRS 91.7 FM (simulcast with WPLN, Nashville).
There is also one light modern station at WLQK 95.9 FM & two Christian music stations: WAYM 90.5 FM Christian Hit Radio and WWOG 90.9 FM King of Kings Radio as well as Catholic Radio station WRIM 89.9 Risen Radio.
There are three talk airways broadcasts transmitting on both the FM and the AM dials: WPTN The Eagle 106.1 FM and AM 780 (sports), WHUB The Hub 107.7 FM and AM 1400 (news) and WUCT News Talk 94.1 FM and 1600 AM (news).
The town/city of Cookeville operates under the council-manager form of municipal government.
There is an propel five-member town/city council, including a mayor, vice mayor, and three town/city council members.
The town/city council establishes policy that is administered by a full-time town/city manager.
All town/city council members serve four year terms, and the town/city manager and town/city clerk are appointed by the town/city council.
The current town/city manager is Mike Davidson and the current town/city clerk is Cathy Mc - Clain. Cookeville is also the governmental center of county of Putnam County, Tennessee.
Putnam County includes the metros/cities of Cookeville, Algood, Baxter and Monterey.
The current county executive is Randy Porter. As of July 2014, the total populace of Putnam County is 74,165. Cookeville High School Cookeville is dominantly a college town, home to Tennessee Technological University since 1915.
Tennessee Tech is a enhance college with programs concentrating in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) studies and is ranked by US News & World Report as #35 on the list of the Top Regional Universities in the South, as well as the most under-rated college in the state of Tennessee. The college is rated under, "Doctoral Universities - Moderate Research Activity (R3)" by the Carnegie classification fitness among schools with at least twenty (20) doctoral graduates per year. In addition to its outstanding science and engineering programs, the college is also home to the Mastersingers and the Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble, led by famous professor, R.
In addition to Tennessee Tech, Cookeville is also home to a satellite ground of Nashville State Community College as well as the Tennessee Bible College, a Christian college affiliated with the Churches of Christ.
Public schools in the town/city of Cookeville are run by Putnam County Schools, which consists of a total of eighteen (18) elementary, middle and high schools positioned throughout Putnam County. The schools positioned in the town/city of Cookeville include Cookeville High School, Jere Whitson Elementary, Prescott Middle School, Northeast Elementary, Capshaw Elementary, Dry Valley School, Parkview Elementary, Sycamore Elementary, Cane Creek Elementary, Avery Trace Middle, and the Adult High School.
Cookeville High School is one of the four biggest enhance high schools in the state of Tennessee, and one of twelve (12) schools in the state of Tennessee to offer the International Baccalaureate program. Cookeville is positioned approximately 80 miles (130 km) east of Nashville and 100 miles (160 km) west of Knoxville along Interstate 40 (I-40).
Chattanooga is approximately 90 miles (140 km) to the south via Tennessee State Route 111 (SR-111).
Route 70 - N (US-70 - N, Spring Street in central and easterly Cookeville, W.
Broad Street on the side) runs east west through the central company precinct of the city, which is approximately 1.5 mi (2.4 km) northwest of the interchange of I-40 with SR-111.
The primary city streets running through the town/city are North Washington Ave.
And South Jefferson Ave., which run north south through the central company district, and Willow Ave., running north south and immediately adjoining to Tennessee Tech University.
With the neighboring town of Algood, and 12th Street runs east west and joins North Washington with Willow, and leads out of town to the west, connecting with Tennessee State Route 56 (SR-56, Gainesboro Highway), via SR-290.
Running east west adjoining to I-40 in the southern section of the town/city is Interstate Drive, which is populated by a several national restaurant chains, hotels, and other businesses.
Located in White County approximately 8.5 nautical miles (15.7 km) south of the central company precinct of the town/city is the Upper Cumberland Regional Airport (ICAO: KSRB, FAA LID: SRB), which is a small, general aviation airport serving primarily single-engine airplane .
Airport shuttles are available for transit to Nashville International, and the Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency (UCHRA) operates a daily express bus to the Nashville Greyhound bus station with stops at the airport three times per day. The UCHRA also operates the Cookeville Area Transit System (CATS) small-town bus service. Since Cookville's founding, rail transport was a primary part of the economy, and the Tennessee Central Railway connecting Nashville and Knoxville had a primary rail depot in the central company district.
Plans are to connect this depot and the rail depot in Cookeville's central company precinct (now a exhibition) with a 19 mi (31 km) bicycle trail. Elmo Stoll a former Old Order Amish bishop, who established of the "Christian Communities", of which the center was Cookeville Cookeville Regional Planning Commission, "Comprehensive Future Land Use Plan, Cookeville, Tennessee, 1999 2020 Archived 2014-07-04 at the Wayback Machine.," 5 October 2000, p.
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