Clarksville, TN

Clarksville, Tennessee
City
Clarksville's historic downtown
Nickname(s): Queen of the Cumberland Gateway to the New South Tennessee's Top Spot
Location in Montgomery County and the state of Tennessee.
Clarksville, Tennessee Location in the United States
Coordinates: 36°N 87°E / 36°N 87°E / 36; 87
Country	United States
State	Tennessee
County	Montgomery
Founded:	1785
Incorporated:	1808
Government
• Mayor	Kim McMillan
Area
• Total	95.5 sq mi (247.4 km2)
• Land	94.9 sq mi (245.7 km2)
• Water	0.7 sq mi (1.8 km2)
Elevation	509 ft (155 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	132,929
• Estimate (2014)	146,806
• Rank	US: 176th
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes	37040-37044
Area code(s)	931
FIPS code	47-15160
GNIS feature ID	1269467
Website	cityofclarksville.com

The city of Clarksville is the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee, and the fifth-largest city in the state behind Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. The city had a population of 132,957 at the 2010 census, and an estimated population of 149,176 in 2015.

It is the principal central city of the Clarksville, TN-KY metropolitan statistical area, which consists of Montgomery and Stewart Counties in Tennessee, and Christian and Trigg Counties in Kentucky. The city was incorporated in 1785 as Tennessee's first incorporated city, and named for General George Rogers Clark, frontier fighter and Revolutionary War hero, and brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Clarksville is the home of Austin Peay State University; The Leaf-Chronicle, the oldest newspaper in Tennessee; and neighbor to the Fort Campbell, United States Army base. Site of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell is located about 10 miles (16 km) from downtown Clarksville, straddling the Tennessee-Kentucky state line. It is officially Fort Campbell, Kentucky, as the base U.S. Post Office is on the Kentucky side of the post. The majority of the acreage of Fort Campbell is within the state of Tennessee.