Clinch Mountain, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 77 relations: Appalachian Mountains, Bang Bang Lulu, Battle of Bean's Station, Bean Station, Tennessee, Beartown Mountain, Blaine, Tennessee, Burke's Garden, Virginia, Carl Sandburg, Carter Family, Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Clinch River, CSX Transportation, Cumberland Gap, Daniel Boone, Eidson, Tennessee, Fiddle, Flattop Mountain, Gate City, Virginia, George R. Stewart, Grainger County, Tennessee, Hancock County, Tennessee, Hansonville, Virginia, Hawkins County, Tennessee, Holston River, Holston, Virginia, Interstate 26, Joppa, Tennessee, Kingsport Subdivision, Kingsport Times-News, Liberty University, List of subranges of the Appalachian Mountains, Maiden Spring, Mary Draper Ingles, Mendota, Virginia, Moccasin Gap, Mountain, NIMBY, Norfolk Southern Railway, Orleana Hawks Puckett, Powder Springs, Tennessee, Ralph Stanley, Ridge, Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, Rogersville, Tennessee, Rutledge, Tennessee, Sneedville, Tennessee, Tannersville, Virginia, Tate Springs, Tazewell, Tennessee, Tennessee, ... Expand index (27 more) »

2. Ridges of Tennessee
3. Ridges of Virginia

Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America.

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Bang Bang Lulu

"Bang Bang Lulu" is a traditional American song with many variations.

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Battle of Bean's Station

The Battle of Bean's Station (December 14, 1863) was fought in Grainger County, Tennessee, during the Knoxville campaign of the American Civil War.

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Bean Station, Tennessee

Bean Station is a town split between the counties of Grainger and Hawkins in Tennessee, United States.

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Beartown Mountain

Beartown Mountain is in the Clinch Mountain range, which is in eastern Russell County, Virginia, United States.

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Blaine, Tennessee

Blaine, formerly known as Blaine's Crossroads, is a city in Grainger County, Tennessee, United States, and a suburb of neighboring Knoxville.

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Burke's Garden, Virginia

Burke's Garden is an upland valley and unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Virginia.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor.

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Carter Family

The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956.

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Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area

Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area is a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Virginia.

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Clinch River

The Clinch River is a river that flows southwest for more than through the Great Appalachian Valley in the U.S. states of Virginia and Tennessee, gathering various tributaries, including the Powell River, before joining the Tennessee River in Kingston, Tennessee.

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CSX Transportation

CSX Transportation, known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Cumberland Gap

The Cumberland Gap is a pass in the eastern United States through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains and near the tripoint of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.

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Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (1734September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

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Eidson, Tennessee

Eidson is an unincorporated community located on the north side of Clinch Mountain in Hawkins County, Tennessee.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Flattop Mountain

Flattop Mountain and Flat Top Mountain may refer to.

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Gate City, Virginia

Gate City is a town in Scott County, Virginia, United States.

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George R. Stewart

George Rippey Stewart Jr. (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Grainger County, Tennessee

Grainger County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Hancock County, Tennessee

Hancock County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Hansonville, Virginia

Hansonville is an unincorporated community in southern Russell County, Virginia.

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Hawkins County, Tennessee

Hawkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Holston River

The Holston River is a river that flows from Kingsport, Tennessee, to Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Holston, Virginia

Holston is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Virginia, in the United States.

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Interstate 26

Interstate 26 (I-26) is a main route of the Interstate Highway System in the Southeastern United States.

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Joppa, Tennessee

Joppa is an unincorporated community in rural central-western Grainger County, Tennessee, United States.

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Kingsport Subdivision

The Kingsport Subdivision (also KP Subdivision) is a 133.2-mile (214.4 km) railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.

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Kingsport Times-News

The Kingsport Times-News is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Kingsport, Tennessee, and distributed in six counties in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.

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Liberty University

Liberty University (LU), known simply as Liberty, is a private evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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List of subranges of the Appalachian Mountains

The following is a list of subranges within the Appalachian Mountains, a mountain range stretching ~2,050 miles from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama, US.

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Maiden Spring

Maiden Spring is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia.

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Mary Draper Ingles

Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia.

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Mendota, Virginia

Mendota is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in Washington County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Virginia, at an elevation of approximately 1411 feet.

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Moccasin Gap

Moccasin Gap, also known as Big Moccasin Gap, is a pass in Clinch Mountain, a long ridge within the Appalachian Mountains, at Gate City, Virginia.

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Mountain

A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.

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NIMBY

NIMBY (or nimby), an acronym for the phrase "not in my back yard", is a characterization of opposition by residents to proposed real estate development and infrastructure developments in their local area, as well as support for strict land use regulations.

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Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States.

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Orleana Hawks Puckett

Orleana Hawks Puckett (c. 1844 - 1938) was an American midwife in the mountains of Patrick and Carroll County, Virginia.

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Powder Springs, Tennessee

Powder Springs is an unincorporated community in Grainger County, Tennessee, United States.

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Ralph Stanley

Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016) was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing.

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Ridge

A ridge is a long, narrow, elevated geomorphologic landform, structural feature, or a combination of both separated from the surrounding terrain by steep sides.

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Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians

The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands division. Clinch Mountain and Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians are ridges of Tennessee and ridges of Virginia.

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Rogersville, Tennessee

Rogersville is a town in, and the county seat of, Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States.

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Rutledge, Tennessee

Rutledge is a city in and the county seat of Grainger County, Tennessee.

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Sneedville, Tennessee

Sneedville is the only city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Tennessee, United States.

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Tannersville, Virginia

Tannersville is an unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States.

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Tate Springs

Tate Springs was a historic world-class luxury resort complex located on U.S. Route 11W in Bean Station, Tennessee, United States.

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Tazewell, Tennessee

Tazewell is a town in and the county seat of Claiborne County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,165 at the 2000 census, 2,218 at the 2010 census, and 2,348 at the 2020 census. The town is named for Tazewell, Virginia, which itself was named for Henry Tazewell (1753–1799), a U.S.

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Tennessee

Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Tennessee State Route 31

State Route 31 (SR 31) is a north-south state highway in northeastern Tennessee.

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Tennessee State Route 32

State Route 32 (SR 32) is a state highway in East Tennessee.

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Tennessee State Route 66

State Route 66 (SR 66) is a state-maintained highway in eastern Tennessee, including a six-lane divided highway known as Winfield Dunn Parkway in Sevier County, a four-lane expressway in Hamblen and Jefferson counties and a two-lane rural collector through mountainous terrain continuing to the northeast terminus in Hancock County.

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Tennessee State Route 70

State Route 70 (SR 70) is a state-maintained highway in East Tennessee, beginning at the border with North Carolina in the midst of the Cherokee National Forest and the Great Smoky Mountains and ending at the Virginia border in the extremely rural and mountainous terrain of Hancock County.

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The American Songbag

The American Songbag is an anthology of American folksongs compiled by the poet Carl Sandburg and published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1927.

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Thomas Walker (explorer)

Thomas Walker (January 25, 1715 – November 9, 1794) was a physician, planter and explorer in colonial Virginia who served multiple terms in the Virginia General Assembly, and whose descendants also had political careers.

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Thorn Hill, Tennessee

Thorn Hill is an unincorporated community in rural northeastern Grainger County, Tennessee.

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Treadway, Tennessee

Treadway is an unincorporated community in Hancock County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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U.S. Route 19 in Virginia

U.S. Route 19 (US 19) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from Memphis, Florida, to Erie, Pennsylvania.

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U.S. Route 23

U.S. Route 23 or U.S. Highway 23 (US 23) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway between Jacksonville, Florida, and Mackinaw City, Michigan.

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U.S. Route 23 in Virginia

U.S. Route 23 (US 23) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from Jacksonville, Florida, to Mackinaw City, Michigan.

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U.S. Route 25E

U.S. Route 25E (US 25E) is the eastern branch of US 25 from Newport, Tennessee, where US 25 splits into US 25E and US 25W, to North Corbin, Kentucky, where the two highways rejoin.

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U.S. Route 421

U.S. Route 421 (also U.S. Highway 421, US 421) is a diagonal northwest–southeast United States Numbered Highway in the states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana.

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U.S. Route 421 in Virginia

U.S. Route 421 (US 421) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Fort Fisher, North Carolina to Michigan City, Indiana.

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U.S. Route 58

U.S. Route 58 (US 58) is an east–west U.S. Highway that runs for from U.S. Route 25E just northwest of Harrogate, Tennessee, to U.S. Route 60 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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U.S. Route 58 Alternate

U.S. Route 58 Alternate (US 58 Alt.) is an alternate route to US 58 in western Virginia.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Virginia State Route 16

State Route 16 is a primary state highway in the southwest part of the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Virginia State Route 612

State Route 612 (SR 612) in the U.S. state of Virginia is a secondary route designation applied to multiple discontinuous road segments among the many counties.

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Virginia State Route 80

State Route 80 is a primary state highway in the southwest part of the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Virginia State Route 91

State Route 91 (SR 91) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Water gap

A water gap is a gap that flowing water has carved through a mountain range or mountain ridge and that still carries water today.

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Weber City, Virginia

Weber City is an incorporated town in Scott County, Virginia, United States.

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Wilderness Road

The Wilderness Road was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East.

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William Bean

William Bean (December 9, 1721-May 1782) was an American pioneer, longhunter, and Commissioner of the Watauga Association.

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See also

Ridges of Tennessee

• Bays Mountain
• Buffalo Ridge (Tennessee)
• Candies Creek Ridge
• Chilhowee Mountain
• Clinch Mountain
• Holston Mountain
• Lookout Mountain
• Missionary Ridge
• Newman Ridge
• Pine Mountain (Appalachian Mountains)
• Powell Mountain
• Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
• Sharp's Ridge
• Stringer's Ridge
• Walden Ridge
• Wallen Ridge

Ridges of Virginia

• Allegheny Mountain (West Virginia–Virginia)
• Bear Garden Mountain
• Blue Ridge Mountain
• Cacapon Mountain
• Catoctin Mountain
• Cedar Mountain, Virginia
• Clinch Mountain
• Great North Mountain
• Hogback Mountain (Loudoun County, Virginia)
• Holston Mountain
• Massanutten Mountain
• North Mountain (Virginia-West Virginia)
• Pine Mountain (Appalachian Mountains)
• Poor Mountain
• Powell Mountain
• Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
• Shenandoah Mountain
• Short Hill Mountain
• Timber Ridge
• Wallen Ridge

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinch_Mountain

Also known as Clinch Mountains.

, Tennessee State Route 31, Tennessee State Route 32, Tennessee State Route 66, Tennessee State Route 70, The American Songbag, Thomas Walker (explorer), Thorn Hill, Tennessee, Treadway, Tennessee, U.S. Route 19 in Virginia, U.S. Route 23, U.S. Route 23 in Virginia, U.S. Route 25E, U.S. Route 421, U.S. Route 421 in Virginia, U.S. Route 58, U.S. Route 58 Alternate, U.S. state, United States, Virginia, Virginia State Route 16, Virginia State Route 612, Virginia State Route 80, Virginia State Route 91, Water gap, Weber City, Virginia, Wilderness Road, William Bean.