Spring City, Tennessee Spring City, Tennessee Location of Spring City, Tennessee Location of Spring City, Tennessee Spring City is a town in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States.
The populace was 2,025 at the 2000 census and 1,981 at the 2010 census.
The town is positioned along Watts Bar Lake, and Watts Bar Dam and the Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station are nearby.
The town was originally titled "Rheaville," but close-by Rhea Springs, an older improve the barns had bypassed, objected to the name, so the name "Spring City" was chosen instead.
Spring City Depot, instead of in 1909 The town/city received an economic boost in 1942 with the Tennessee Valley Authority's culmination of Watts Bar Dam and its associated reservoir southeast of the town.
Its first reactor, Watts Bar Unit 1, became active in 1996.
The assembly of the second reactor, Watts Bar Unit 2, was originally suspended in 1985, but resumed in 2007.
Spring City is positioned at 35 41 22 N 84 51 50 W (35.689422, -84.863885). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2), of which, 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (1.21%) is water.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 20.4% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 23.9% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 24.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $27,009, and the median income for a family was $31,894.
Pat Guffey, "Historical Notes About Spring City," Rhea Herald-News, 5 September 2014.
Carroll Van West, Tennessee's Historic Landscapes (University of Tennessee Press, 1995), p.
"Watts Bar Unit 2 Reactivation," United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission website.
"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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