Portland, Tennessee Portland, Tennessee Portland City Hall Portland City Hall Location of Portland, Tennessee Location of Portland, Tennessee Portland is a town/city in Sumner and Robertson counties in Tennessee.
Portland is a part of the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Portland is positioned on the Highland Rim in extreme northern Middle Tennessee.
The earliest small-town settlement in Portland is Fountain Head which is positioned a couple of miles south of Portland.
William Nolan assembled a school near Shun Pike in what is now Portland.
Portland was originally called Richland.
In 1859, the L&N Railroad opened the Nashville-Bowling Green route through Portland.
Without this depot, the City of Portland would likely not exist.
It was later decided by the Railroad administrators and the postal authorities that Richland would be retitled Portland to avoid this confusion.
Portland was incorporated in April 1904 by legislation passed by the Tennessee Assembly.
Currently Portland is burgeoning at a fast pace due to being part of the fast burgeoning Nashville Metropolitan Area, dominant to companies such as Daido America operating their US command posts in Portland, along with companies such as Kyowa America and Unipres having manufacturing plants in the town/city as well. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.4 square miles (30 km2), of which, 11.4 square miles (30 km2) is territory and 0.09% is water.
Portland, Tennessee Business District As of the 2010 Enumeration Portland had a populace of 11,480.
In the city, the populace was 28.1% under the age of 18, 10.6% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 18.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
Country star Ronnie Mc - Dowell was born in Portland and graduated from Portland High School.
NBA basketball player Corey Brewer was born in Portland and attended Portland High School, where he played high school basketball for the Portland Panthers.
Nashville Recording Artist and American Idol Finalist (Jada Vance) resides in Portland, TN.
Pat Meguiar, History of Portland, Portland town/city website.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing: Decennial Censuses".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
2010 general profile of populace and housing characteristics for Portland from the US Enumeration Official website of the City of Portland Municipalities and communities of Sumner County, Tennessee, United States Municipalities and communities of Robertson County, Tennessee, United States
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Cities in Sumner County, Tennessee - Cities in Robertson County, Tennessee - Cities in Tennessee - Populated places established in 1859 - 1859 establishments in Tennessee
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