Clarksville, Tennessee
| Clarksville, Tennessee | |
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Clarksville's historic downtown
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| Nickname(s): Queen of the Cumberland Gateway to the New South Tennessee's Top Spot |
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 Location in Montgomery County and the state of Tennessee. |
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 Clarksville, Tennessee
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| Coordinates: 36°N 87°E / 36°N 87°E | |
| 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.
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