Monteagle, Tennessee Monteagle, Tennessee Location of Monteagle, Tennessee Location of Monteagle, Tennessee Monteagle is a town in Franklin, Grundy, and Marion counties in the U.S.
State of Tennessee, in the Cumberland Plateau region of the southeastern part of the state.
The populace was 1,238 at the 2000 census 804 of the town's 1,238 inhabitants (64.9%) lived in Grundy County, 428 (34.6%) in Marion County, and 6 (0.5%) in Franklin County. The populace at the 2010 census was 1,192. The Marion County portion of Monteagle is part of the Chattanooga GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Franklin County portion is part of the Tullahoma, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Monteagle is famous for the treacherous stretch of Interstate 24 that passes through the town.
It is here that the highway passes over what is colloquially referred to as "The Monteagle" or "Monteagle Mountain", a section of the southern Cumberland Plateau which is a primary landmark on the road between Chattanooga and Nashville.
The town is home to the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly.
Monteagle has long served as a prominent point to cross the Cumberland Plateau due to its locale along a mostly narrow stretch of the plateau in southern Tennessee.
One of the last groups of Cherokees removed from the Southeastern United States along the Trail of Tears passed through what is now Monteagle en route to Oklahoma in late October 1838.
The town of Monteagle was originally known as "Moffat Station" after John Moffat, a Scottish-Canadian temperance activist who purchased over 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of territory in the region in 1870.
The grounds of the school are now home to the Du - Bose Conference Center, titled for one of the school's early pastors. In 1882, the Chautauqua-inspired Monteagle Sunday School Assembly was established to train Sunday school teachers. The spelling had been changed to "Monteagle" by the time the town incorporated in 1962. Monteagle is positioned in the southwest corner of Grundy County and the northwest corner of Marion County at 35 14 24 N 85 50 4 W (35.239941, -85.834372). The Marion-Grundy county line runs east-to-west through the center of town.
The town straddles a narrow stretch of the Cumberland Plateau known colloquially as "Monteagle Mountain". This stretch of the plateau is approximately 2 miles (3 km) wide, with steep drop-offs to the northwest and southeast.
Interstate 24 passes through the town just south and west of the town center, with access from Exits 134 and 135.
Route 41 is Main Street through the town, dominant east 6 miles (10 km) to Tracy City and northwest 24 miles (39 km) to Manchester.
Route 41 - A chapters off from US 41 in Monteagle and leads southwest 5.5 miles (8.9 km) to Sewanee.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 8.6 square miles (22.3 km2), of which 8.5 square miles (22.1 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.48%, is water. The north side of town drains off the plateau into Layne Cove and is part of the Elk River watershed, while the south side drains into Ladd Cove and Cave Cove, part of the Battle Creek watershed.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 19.5% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 23.0% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 25.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
Monteagle, Monteagle Mountain Chamber of Commerce. Population Division.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Monteagle town, Tennessee".
"Monteagle: History," Grundy County website.
The name is used by the small-town chamber of commerce () and the Grundy County website (), and is incessantly used in news reports to describe accidents in the vicinity (e.g.
"Monteagle, 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".
Town of Monteagle official website Media related to Monteagle, Tennessee at Wikimedia Commons Municipalities and communities of Marion County, Tennessee, United States Municipalities and communities of Franklin County, Tennessee, United States Municipalities and communities of Grundy County, Tennessee, United States
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