Johnson City, Tennessee Johnson City, Tennessee City Downtown Johnson City Downtown Johnson City Johnson City, Tennessee is positioned in Tennessee Johnson City, Tennessee - Johnson City, Tennessee Location of Johnson City in Tennessee City 43.3 sq mi (112.1 km2) City 63,152 Johnson City is a town/city in Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties in the U.S.
State of Tennessee, with most of the town/city being in Washington County.
As of the 2010 census, the populace of Johnson City was 63,152, and by 2015 the estimated populace was 66,027, making it the ninth-largest town/city in the state. Johnson City is ranked the #14 "Best Small Place for Business and Careers" in the USA by Forbes, and #5 in Kiplinger's list of "The 10 Least-Expensive Cities For Living in the U.S.A." Johnson City is the principal town/city of the Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which covers Carter, Unicoi, and Washington counties and had a combined populace of 200,966 as of 2013.
The MSA is also a component of the Johnson City Kingsport Bristol, TN-VA Combined Travel Destination commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region.
6.2 Johnson City School System 7.1 Major companies headquartered in Johnson City William Bean, traditionally recognized as Tennessee's first colonizer, assembled his cabin along Boone's Creek near Johnson City in 1769. In the 1780s, Colonel John Tipton (1730 1813) established a farm (now the Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site) just outside what is now Johnson City.
Founded in 1856 by Henry Johnson as a barns station called "Johnson's Depot", Johnson City became a primary rail core for the Southeast, as three stockyards lines crossed in the downtown area. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Johnson City served as command posts for the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (the ET&WNC, nicknamed "Tweetsie") and the standard gauge Clinchfield Railroad.
During the American Civil War, before it was formally incorporated in 1869, the name of the town was briefly changed to "Haynesville" with respect to Confederate Senator Landon Carter Haynes. Henry Johnson's name was quickly restored following the war, with Johnson propel as the city's first mayor on January 3, 1870.
However, the nationwide depression of 1893, which caused many stockyards failures (including the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad or "3-Cs", a predecessor of the Clinchfield) and a resulting financial panic, halted Johnson City's boom town momentum. The East Tennessee State Normal School was authorized in 1911 and the new college ground located directly athwart from the National Soldiers Home.
Johnson City began quickly growing and became the fifth-largest town/city in Tennessee by 1930. Together with neighboring Bristol, Johnson City was noted as a hotbed for old-time music; it hosted noteworthy Columbia Records recording sessions in 1928 known as the Johnson City Sessions.
During the 1920s and the Prohibition era, Johnson City's ties to the bootlegging activeness of the Appalachian Mountains earned the town/city the nickname of "Little Chicago". Stories persist that the town was one of a several distribution centers for Chicago gang stature Al Capone amid Prohibition.
Capone had a well-organized distribution network inside the southern United States for alcohol smuggling; it shipped his products from the mountain distillers to northern cities.
The town/city is featured in a song and video by Travis Tritt called "Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde", although the line "rollin' north on 95" is fictionalized, as Interstate 81 and Interstate 26 intersect near Johnson City.
The town/city is mentioned in a song by Old Crow Medicine Show called "Wagon Wheel", in the lyric "Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke, I caught a trucker out of Philly had a nice long toke.
But he's heading west from the Cumberland Gap, to Johnson City, Tennessee." Johnson City is approximately 100 miles east of Cumberland Gap.
For many years, the town/city had a municipal "privilege tax" on carnival shows, in an attempt to dissuade traveling circuses and other transient entertainment businesses from doing company in town. The use of drums by merchants to draw consideration to their goods is prohibited.
Title Six, Section 106 of the city's municipal code, the so-called "Barney Fife" ordinance, empowers the city's law enforcement to draft into involuntary service as many of the town's people as necessary to aid police in making arrests and in preventing or quelling any riot, unlawful assembly or breach of peace. Johnson City is run by a five-person commission.
Johnson City Police Department Operations jurisdiction* City of Johnson City in the state of Tennessee, United States Johnson City Police Department The town/city is served by the Johnson City Police Department. View of midtown Johnson City Johnson City is positioned in northeastern Washington County at 36 20 N 82 22 W (36.3354, -82.3728), with lesser parts extending north into Sullivan County and east into Carter County.
Johnson City shares a adjoining southeastern border with Elizabethton.
Johnson City also shares a small adjoining border with Kingsport to the far north along I-26 and a slightly longer one with Bluff City to the northeast along US 11 - E.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 43.3 square miles (112.1 km2), of which 42.9 square miles (111.2 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.8 km2), or 0.75%, is water. The steep mountain peaks, rolling hills and valleys encircling the region are part of the Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley Province, and Johnson City is just west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Roan Mountain, with an altitude of over 6,000 feet (1,800 m), is approximately 20 miles (32 km) to the southeast of the city.
Buffalo Mountain, a ridge over 2,700 feet (820 m) high, is the locale of a town/city park on the south side of town.
The Nolichucky River flows 12 miles (19 km) to the south of Johnson City.
Whitewater rafting and kayaking opportunities exist 20 miles (32 km) south of Johnson City where that river flows from the North Carolina state line near Erwin.
Climate data for Johnson City, Tennessee Condominium evolution in North Johnson City The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 90.09% White, 6.40% African American, 0.26% Native American, 1.22% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.69% from other competitions, and 1.32% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 19.8% under the age of 18, 13.7% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 15.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The transit center in downtown Johnson City Johnson City is served by Tri-Cities Regional Airport (IATA Code TRI) and Johnson City Airport (0 - A4), positioned in Watauga.
Johnson City is bisected by Interstate 26, which joins the town/city to Kingsport to the north and Asheville, North Carolina, and Spartanburg, South Carolina, to the south.
Interstate 81 intersects I-26 a 16 miles (26 km) northwest of the town/city center and carries drivers to Knoxville to the southwest and Bristol to the northeast.
Route 19 - W runs through the city, signed partially on I-26, before joining 19 - E near Bluff City en route to Bristol.
Route 11 - E joins Johnson City to Jonesborough and Greeneville to the southwest, and reunites with 11 - W to the northeast in Bristol before closing on to Roanoke, Virginia.
In Johnson City, route 11 - E forms a concurrency with North Roan Street, a primary artery in the city.
Route 321, also partially positioned on the 11 - E route, joins Johnson City to Elizabethton (forming a high-speed, limited-access freeway) before closing on to Hickory and Gastonia, North Carolina.
Route 23 is concurrent with I-26 from North Carolina, through Johnson City, and north to the I-26 end in Kingsport.
Johnson City Transit (JCT) operates a fitness of buses inside the town/city limits, including a route every fifteen minutes along Roan Street.
And 11:00 p.m. The Johnson City Transit Center, positioned downtown on West Market Street, also serves as the transfer point for Greyhound lines running through the city.
East Tennessee State University has around 16,000 students in addition to a K-12 University School, a laboratory school of about 540 students. University School was the first laboratory school in the country to adopt a year-round academic schedule. Milligan College is positioned just outside the town/city limits in Carter County, and has about 1,200 students in undergraduate and graduate programs.
Northeast State Community College is renovating a building in downtown Johnson City for use as a new satellite teaching site. Tusculum College has a center on the north side of Johnson City in the Boones Creek area.
Johnson City School System Mountain Dew traces its origins to the city.
Johnson City is an economic core largely fueled by East Tennessee State University and the medical "Med-Tech" corridor, anchored by the Johnson City Medical Center, Franklin Woods Community Hospital, ETSU's Gatton College of Pharmacy and ETSU's Quillen College of Medicine.
Johnson City is ranked #35 "Best Small Place for Business and Careers" in the USA. Due to its climate, high character community care and affordable housing, it is ranked #8 "Best Place for African Americans to Retire" by Black Enterprise magazine. Kiplinger ranked Johnson City #5 in "The 10 Least-Expensive Cities For Living in the U.S.A.", stating the low cost of living is attributed to affordable homes and below-average utility, transit and health-care costs. The prominent citrus soda, Mountain Dew, traces its origins to Johnson City.
In July 2012, Pepsi - Co announced that a new, malt-flavored version of the drink will be titled Mountain Dew Johnson City Gold, with respect to the city.
Citi Commerce Solutions 1700 Johnson City serves as a county-wide medical center for northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, along with parts of North Carolina and southeastern Kentucky.
Although there are two primary hospital systems in the Tri-Cities, only one Mountain States Health Alliance has a existence in Johnson City.
The Johnson City Medical Center, designated a Level 1 Trauma Center by the State of Tennessee, is MSHA's flagship institution.
Franklin Woods Community Hospital is a LEED-certified facility positioned in North Johnson City. The "green" hospital (opened July 12, 2010) encloses approximately 240,000 square feet (22,000 m2) on a 25-acre (100,000 m2) lot adjoining to The Wellness Center inside Med - Tech Park.
Quillen Rehabilitation Hospital, also positioned in North Johnson City, serves patients who have suffered debilitating trauma, including stroke and brain-spine injuries.
Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center, positioned in the Mountain Home improve in Johnson City's southside, serves veterans in the four-state region.
Monument of Chief Junaluska in Metro-Kiwanis Park, Johnson City Museum, positioned in downtown Johnson City, homes an interactive loggia of exhibits and is a small-town favorite for school field trips.
The corporate command posts of General Shale Brick, between North Johnson City and Boones Creek, is home to a exhibition that showcases a compilation of historically momentous bricks including a 10,000-year-old specimen from the ancient town/city of Jericho. The Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site is positioned in the south of the city.
The Little Chicago Blues Festival is an annual celebration of the legendary Prohibition-era speakeasies and barns glory days of Johnson City.
The Umoja Unity Festival is held annually in downtown Johnson City.
Initiated in 1978, Umoja, a Swahili word meaning "unity", is a festival that spotlights the diverse societies of Johnson City, with an emphasis on black and Latino cultures.
Each month the downtown shopping precinct of Johnson City is home to "First Friday", a burgeoning art and music festival.
As a county-wide core for a four-state area, Johnson City is home to a large range of retail business, from well-known nationwide chains to small-town boutiques and arcades.
The Mall at Johnson City is the city's only enclosed shopping mall.
Much of the new retail evolution is positioned in North Johnson City, along State of Franklin Road.
Johnson City Crossings is the biggest of these developments.
Downtown Johnson City is seeing an increased retail presence, including art arcades, boutiques, and antique sellers.
Shop - Local Tri-Cities is a company organization established in Johnson City that promotes small-town businesses and promotes keeping cash local.
The region is served by the Johnson City Press, one of the three primary newspapers in the northeast Tennessee region.
The Johnson City News and Neighbor is a no-charge weekly improve newspaper.
The Business Journal of Tri-Cities, TN/VA, based out of Johnson City, is the region's biggest company magazine.
WJHL-TV is a CBS partner licensed in Johnson City.
The town/city is part of the Tri-Cities Designated Market Area, which also comprises WCYB-TV in Bristol, VA (NBC; CW on DT2), WEMT in Greeneville (Fox), WETP-TV in Sneedville (PBS) and WKPT-TV in Kingsport (My - Network - TV).
Johnson City is part of the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol Arbitron radio market.
WJCW 910 AM and WQUT 101.5 FM are Cumulus Media stations which are also licensed in Johnson City.
Sarah Bettens, lead singer of modern band K's Choice; Johnson City firefighter for a year Jake Grove, born in Johnson City; played center for Virginia Tech, won the Rimington Trophy, plays for the Miami Dolphins Catherine Marshall, author, born in Johnson City, later worked on her novel Christy while staying with relatives in town John Alan Maxwell, artist and illustrator, raised in Johnson City, illustrated for Pearl S.
Buck, John Steinbeck, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, spent his last 18 years in Johnson City; permanent compilation housed at Carroll Reece Museum at ETSU David Phil Roe, mayor of Johnson City and representative for Tennessee's 1st congressional precinct in 2008 Connie Saylor, NASCAR driver and Johnson City company owner Steve Spurrier, Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback and College Football Hall of Fame coach, spent most of his childhood in Johnson City and attended Science Hill High School.
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Greater Johnson City, by Ray Stahl, 1986.
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