Jellico, Tennessee Jellico, Tennessee Jellico is positioned in Tennessee Jellico - Jellico Named for Jellico coal Jellico is a town/city in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States, on the state border with Kentucky, 58 miles (93 km) by road north of Knoxville.
The name "Jellico" is a county-wide corruption of "Angelica", an herb that grows in abundance in the encircling mountain peaks.
The name was first applied to the mountain peaks to the west and to the mountain peaks' chief drainage, Jellico Creek, which passes 5 miles (8 km) west of the town/city of Jellico and empties into the Cumberland River near Williamsburg, Kentucky.
A child laborer at Proctor Coal near Jellico, 1910.
In the early 1880s, a high character bituminous coal was identified in the Jellico Mountains, and with the culmination of barns tracks to the region in 1883, coal mines quickly sprang up throughout the area.
The town/city of Jellico was initially established as "Smithburg" in 1878, but changed its name to "Jellico" in 1883 to capitalize on the burgeoning popularity of Jellico coal.
Throughout the 1890s and early 1900s, Jellico was one of the most productive coal fields in Kentucky and Tennessee.
In 1906, a barns car packed with dynamite exploded in Jellico, killing eight and destroying part of the town. The town quickly recovered, however, and many of the buildings in the Main Street region date from this period.
In 1971, Indian Mountain State Park was created at the site of a reclaimed strip mine in Jellico.
In 1999, much of North and South Main Street was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Jellico Commercial Historic District.
Jellico is positioned along the northern border of Tennessee at 36 34 57 N 84 7 50 W (36.582627, -84.130608). The town/city is situated amidst the Cumberland Mountains in the valley of Elk Creek, which flows north into Kentucky.
Jellico spans the bases and slopes of three steep hills that split the Elk Creek valley from the larger Clear Fork valley to the east.
A prominent knob known as Indian Mountain rises nearly 1,000 feet (300 m) above Jellico to the west, and is visible from most of the city.
This mountain and an adjoining lake are now home to Indian Mountain State Park.
The larger Jellico Mountain dominates the region beyond Indian Mountain to the west, and Pine Mountain dominates the region beyond the Clear Fork Valley to the east.
Route 25 - W (North Main Street and 5th Street), which joins Jellico to Interstate 75 to the southeast and Corbin, Kentucky, to the north, and Tennessee State Route 297 (South Main Street), which joins Jellico with Huntsville to the southwest.
The Tennessee-Kentucky state line forms Jellico's official northern boundary, although homes and businesses associated with the town/city are on both sides of the border.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.4 square miles (16.5 km2), of which 6.3 square miles (16.3 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km2), or 1.15%, is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.0% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 21.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
There are a several restaurants, hotels/motels and gas stations positioned off Jellico's exit of Interstate 75, Exit 160.
Since 1922, Jellico has been the home of the denominational command posts for the Church of God Mountain Assembly, a holiness Pentecostal Christian denomination.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Jellico 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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