In my work, people assign trips, the brokerage sees counties, I see cities. They drop Madison trips on us occasionally. The office is based in Jackson, so they’ve just assigned a trip that’s 2.5 hours away when there’s also an office in Nashville.
As someone who grew up in Madison county and was on a trip to Nashville when I was young I was amazed that we were back in Madison just to learn it was not the same Madison lol
A lot of the early cities and counties were named after Revolutionary War heros. The cities came first, and then when Tennessee became the 16th state, they had to make counties. I don't think it was a thing to name counties after a town in the area where the county seat would be like later states. It may have caused confusion naming a county after a city or town in it.
Edit: there was a lot of areas that were named after what the native Americans called it as well. The name Tennessee is a native American word and so is Chattanooga.
They made counties, then they divided those counties up into more counties. You can see when each county was born by walking around the bicentennial mall.
Most of the Native American stuff is in the Chattanooga area if I'm not mistaken. If it's not Native American (Soddy-Daisy, Ooltewah, Chattanooga, etc.) then it's named after a war hero or industrialist of old. He'll the Chickamauga battlefield is the second bloodiest fight of the Civil War and it's just south of the TN-GA line. But east tennessee was occupied by confederate forces for fear of helping abolitionist and for a very brief time before that, the Eastern portion of the state succeeded from the rest of the state of Tennessee if I remember correctly.
You’re kinda half right.
It was called “The State of Franklin” but it was well before the Civil War. It was in 1784-1788
Modern Day Jonesborough (the oldest town in Tennessee). Near Johnson City.
Davy Crockett was born there
That's correct. I just use the small history of it to add to the claim that the mountainous regions of Tennessee have historically had different values than the rest of the state.
And General Nash who Nashville is named for never set foot in Tennessee.
The TN State Archives has a recently published book 'Patriots to Pioneers' that details who all those names belong to and why they are all scatter shot across the state
To be fair, Gen Nash caught a stray in a battle during the Revolutionary War. Robertson and Donelson chose him to be the basis of the name of the settlement.
Fun fact Nash was one of 10 American generals killed during the war
I appreciate the list, OP. It is confusing!
I lived in Kentucky for a a long time and I remember being blown away as a kid because, at the time, Christian county was "wet" (sold booze) while Bourbon county was "dry".
I was cursed with a wonderful child who loves history and have had this conversation more often than any person should be subject to.
In the case of McMinnville and McMinn county, they are both named after the same person. The city of McMinnville was established in Warren County before McMinn became a county. The name was already taken, so they couldn't use it for a city.
Back when places were being formed, they were set up in a hodge podge way and there was a more limited number of famous/relevant people to name things after so the same people were often used and it was pretty much first come come, first serve with who got to use the name for the county or city.
Keep having that conversation as many times as you can. I know you already know: you're making priceless memories. Thanks for sharing b/c nothing warms my heart like parent inquisitive child bonding stories.
One day, many decades from now, your little wonderful will cherish all that.
He's not so little anymore. He's a teenager now, but he's always been like this, and Ill admit I do enjoy our car ride conversations and will eventually miss them.
Any time we're in the car he talks constantly about everything from politics to world history. If he's slightly interested in anything, he does a deep dive and learns everything he can about it and usually tells me everything he's learned. I will always be amazed at how he just seems to absorb and remember all the details about so much.
Whatever you've done as a parent, I have a feeling you should be very proud. That's so awesome to hear of a kid/teenager so interested in learning and not addicted to Tic Toc or whatever kids are into these days. Seems like you've got a great one on your hands.
"cursed with a wonderful child..." haha, love your phrasing.
That's awesome that he loves history/politics. At his age I most certainly did not have an appreciation for history. (although I do now, 40 years later)
We do it up here in Iowa, too. Des Moines is in Polk County, not Des Moines County, whose county seat is Burlington which is just north of Keokuk, the county seat of Lee County, and south east of the Keokuk County seat, Sigourney.
Dyer, Gibson, and Rutherford. All names of towns, and also names of counties.
One might expect the towns to be in the counties of the same name (one of them actually is), but *NOPE* - all three are in Gibson County! 😂
Crazy, right? Well, not every place can be like… e.g. Dyersburg or Knoxville!
ETA: Perryville *used to be* in Perry County once upon a time, back when Perry County straddled the Tennessee River, but the county lines were redrawn at some point, such that Perryville is now *just across the river* from it, in Decatur County (where Decaturville is also located, but not Decatur).
ETA 2: Thought of some more. Fayetteville is a *lengthy* drive east of Fayette County, Maury City is not in Maury County, and Tiptonville is upriver from Tipton County.
Henry is in Henry County, but Henry*ville* is in (IIRC) Lawrence County.
Henderson and Johnson City are both a short drive southwest from the counties they share (part of) their names with.
Greeneville is in Greene County, but Greenfield and Greenbrier are not (yes, I know Greeneville and Greene County have a silent extra “e” not present in Greenfield or Greenbrier).
IIRC, neither Cumberland City nor Cumberland Furnace are in Cumberland County.
Roan Mountain is not in Roane County (yes, I am aware they’re not spelled the same), nor is Macon in Macon County.
You GOTTA have just enough that make sense to throw off the system. If they all matched it would make sense, if they all didn't match it would make a bit more sense.... And this is Tennessee... We don't do that here, lmao
Johnson City and Johnson County are close enough to be within the same broadcast area. I used to have to listen extra closely when school closings for snow were announced, as I got a bit too eager when I’d hear “Johnson” and then disappointed when it was the county that got the day off and not the city.
The same can be said for Henderson and Henderson County. Both cities are a short drive *in the same direction* (southwest) from the counties. Crazy coincidence lol!
TX also comes to mind.. there’s probably more..
1. Anderson - Anderson is in Grimes County, not Anderson County.
2. Brownfield - Brownfield is in Terry County, not Brown County.
3. Calvert - Calvert is in Robertson County, not Calvert County.
4. Crockett - Crockett is in Houston County, not Crockett County.
5. Fannin - Fannin is in Goliad County, not Fannin County.
6. Franklin - Franklin is in Robertson County, not Franklin County.
7. Jacksonville - Jacksonville is in Cherokee County, not Jackson County.
8. Tyler - Tyler is in Smith County, not Tyler County.
Not that I know of.
Sometimes, if you read a “listicle” about the “top X number of cities/metro areas for Y”, it will list Nashville as “Nashville-Davidson”, sometimes followed by “-Murfreesboro-Franklin”, which makes Davidson look like a city instead of the county where Nashville is located.
AFAIK it’s only called “Nashville-Davidson” because they have a “metropolitan government” setup where city and county are consolidated, which means technically there is no such thing as a “City of Nashville”, if my understanding of that setup is correct.
Lexington, KY (aka Lexington-Fayette) has a similar setup.
And I *think* Jacksonville, FL does too. Either that or they simply annexed all of unincorporated Duval County, I’m not entirely sure which in this case, because I’ve never heard it referred to as “Jacksonville-Duval”.
>AFAIK it’s only called “Nashville-Davidson” because they have a “metropolitan government” setup where city and county are consolidated, which means technically there is no such thing as a “City of Nashville”, if my understanding of that setup is correct.
And there is also technically no such thing as a "County of Davidson."
Tenn. Code, Title 7, Chapter 1 provides that the two are consolidated into a single, unified "metropolitan" government that doesn't retain any separate city or county functions outside of what is provided for in the new charter of the metropolitan government or required by the Tennessee Constitution.
It also has this lovely gem in 7-1-102(a):
>It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent and purpose...to provide for the creation of metropolitan governments, which may be used to fulfill the unique and urgent needs of a **modern metropolitan area.**
[Nashville is the very model of a modern metropolitan area](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlTisI_HSgw&t=1s&ab_channel=franz39), or something...
What about Old Hickory the Blvd? In Nashville getting directions on OHB depends on which of the five OHB locations you are at. 😂 And don't get me started on Demonbreun. 😂
I noticed this many many years ago and it's because the counties and many of the cities were named after the different people at different times. A person might be notable for a certain county or region of the state but the county named after them could have been established somewhere else in the state long before that.
I don't know, there are plenty of examples around the country where the city and county have the same name, and honestly I think it was a bit disingenuous back in the day when all those places were named. Like, you couldn't come up with a more original name than SmithVILLE for Smith County?
*It's kinda like that in*
*Texas too. Burleson county*
*Isn't in burleson*
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Named after famous people some towns are in tennessee 2 places and this is why there are hwys streets towns counties and sometime airports named the same name after one person
Well, I live in Sumner County. It is named after an American Revolution man named General Jethro Sumner. He never even lived here. We have the Cumberland River, which was named afterca duke in England.
It is a crazy world. But I love Tennessee. I have lived all over thevUSA but the land here calms my soul.
What gets me after many different locales I’ve lived in, is the fact you have one road, with its own name, have three different names in about 5-7 miles. 96 goes through Murfreesboro where it’s also called Franklin Road, Old Fort Parkway, Memorial Boulevard and then turns 90 and continues on. Memorial is also 231 and it’s named Lebanon Pike later. Ugh
Memphis is full of streets that change names, multiple times in some cases.
A.W. Willis Avenue becomes North Parkway and then Summer Avenue.
East Parkway is (IIRC) Trezevant Street north of North Parkway (at the intersection where North Parkway becomes Summer Avenue), and it’s Airways Boulevard south of South Parkway.
Stage Avenue in Frayser becomes Stage-Delano Road, James Road, Stage-James Road, Stage Road, and finally US Highway 64.
Danny Thomas Boulevard becomes Thomas Street (going north) at some point in North Memphis. It becomes Wellington Street south of E.H. Crump Boulevard (which itself becomes Lamar Avenue, and then Interstate 22 when it hits the MS state line).
Covington Pike becomes Stratford Road (going south) shortly after crossing I-40 into the “240 Loop”.
Jackson Avenue becomes Austin Peay Highway after crossing I-40 into Raleigh.
Florida Street in South Memphis becomes New Horn Lake Road after crossing I-55 (going south) into Whitehaven.
Elvis Presley Boulevard becomes Bellevue Boulevard (going north) at some point in South Memphis before dead-ending into Union Avenue.
Winchester Road becomes Mitchell Road at some point in Whitehaven if you go far enough west.
Canada Road is named Houston Levee Road south of US Highway 64.
And there are *plenty* more not listed here. *Do NOT* get me started on the Kirby/Whitten clusterfuck. I get a headache just *thinking* about that one 😩.
Tennessean here. The bad pronunciations are the worst.
Blount = Blunt
Milan = MYE-lan
Lafayette = La-FAY-yett
Santa Fe = Santa-FEE
Shelbyville = SHEV-vull
Eagleville = ee-GAH-vull
Never heard Shelbyville be quite that bad as a Mid-TN native. “Sheh-bee-vul” is what I’ve always heard.
Now an East TN transplant and LaFollette still gets me.
I came from out of state to a family reunion excited to see a cousin I didn’t know I had! When “Murray” finally walked in I went over and gave dear familiar Mary a hug.
I’ve never heard Shelbyville, Santa Fe, or Eagleville with those pronounciations.
But I can attest to that pronunciation of “La-FAY-ett”. We have a street downtown Jackson named Lafayette, and 9 times out of 10 it gets pronounced “La-FAY-ett”.
Same here, until 10-15 years ago it's like all the natives suddenly decided to get even more lazy with it. If it follows the same trajectory, in a couple decades they'll just be saying "Shell"
Kentucky is the same way. Adairville isn’t in Adair county, Hopkinsville isn’t in Hopkins county, taylorsville isn’t in Taylor county, campbellsville isnt in Campbell county, etc.
California expat? Heh.
California cities include of course:
- Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County
- San Francisco, City and County of
- San Diego, in San Diego County
- Sacramento, in Sacramento County
- Fresno, in Fresno County
- Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara County
- San Luis Obispo, in San Luis Obispo County
Oakland, San Jose, Bakersfield are exceptions although San Jose is in Santa Clara County where the city of Santa Clara is a major suburb
try driving on Old Hickory, I swear there are 30 or 40 of this road!When i first moved here I had always lived in places with a grid system as a basis for the road system, Toronto, New York, Florida... but there are so many roads that loop and turn and the same road with 5 names... or like in Spring Hill there is Buckner... which runs perpendicular to Buckner, with a new exit off 65 called June Lake, which runs up to a stop light where if you continue straight you're on Buckner, if you turn Left you're on Buckner, if you turn right... you guessed it! You're on BUCKNER!!! WTF!!???
Recently located to kentucky from the west coast and I’ve noticed the same exact thing here. I’m used to Washington city being in Washington county for example or there simply not being a city/town name that corresponds with a county.
Henderson isn't in Henderson County either!
Or Madison in Madison County.
In my work, people assign trips, the brokerage sees counties, I see cities. They drop Madison trips on us occasionally. The office is based in Jackson, so they’ve just assigned a trip that’s 2.5 hours away when there’s also an office in Nashville.
As someone who grew up in Madison county and was on a trip to Nashville when I was young I was amazed that we were back in Madison just to learn it was not the same Madison lol
There's also a Madisonville also not in Madison County.
Learned something else new!
I grew up in Madisonville
Yep, Jackson is in Madison County 🙂
Figured I missed some, I lost count lol
True, but it’s a lot closer than Henderson*ville* is (Sumner County).
Ayeeeee freed grad here Henderson is the bomb
Also a freed grad!
A lot of the early cities and counties were named after Revolutionary War heros. The cities came first, and then when Tennessee became the 16th state, they had to make counties. I don't think it was a thing to name counties after a town in the area where the county seat would be like later states. It may have caused confusion naming a county after a city or town in it. Edit: there was a lot of areas that were named after what the native Americans called it as well. The name Tennessee is a native American word and so is Chattanooga.
Hiawasee, Sequatchie, Sequoyah, Chickamauga… lots of them here!
Tullahoma!
I used to live on Lake Chickamauga in Chattanooga. I loved saying that!
Soddy Daisy. Ooltewah.
They made counties, then they divided those counties up into more counties. You can see when each county was born by walking around the bicentennial mall.
Chattanooga mentioned 💙💛
Most of the Native American stuff is in the Chattanooga area if I'm not mistaken. If it's not Native American (Soddy-Daisy, Ooltewah, Chattanooga, etc.) then it's named after a war hero or industrialist of old. He'll the Chickamauga battlefield is the second bloodiest fight of the Civil War and it's just south of the TN-GA line. But east tennessee was occupied by confederate forces for fear of helping abolitionist and for a very brief time before that, the Eastern portion of the state succeeded from the rest of the state of Tennessee if I remember correctly.
You’re kinda half right. It was called “The State of Franklin” but it was well before the Civil War. It was in 1784-1788 Modern Day Jonesborough (the oldest town in Tennessee). Near Johnson City. Davy Crockett was born there
That's correct. I just use the small history of it to add to the claim that the mountainous regions of Tennessee have historically had different values than the rest of the state.
You're right. I'm on my last two episodes of the ken burns documentary the Civil war.
Anything Ken Burns did is freaking good af. His WW2 one was very memorable.
I've seen them all lol. This is a rewatch for me. I was a history major.
A lot in Dunlap/Spencer
Yes, ma'am. Born and raised in Soddy Daisy. Been to Dunlap many a time. Haha
Tellico
This is hilarious, I appreciate you pointing this out!
And General Nash who Nashville is named for never set foot in Tennessee. The TN State Archives has a recently published book 'Patriots to Pioneers' that details who all those names belong to and why they are all scatter shot across the state
Hell I was born and raised here and assumed it was named Nashville because of Fort Nashboro, didn't even know there was a General Nash.
The fort was named for the Revolutionary War general
To be fair, Gen Nash caught a stray in a battle during the Revolutionary War. Robertson and Donelson chose him to be the basis of the name of the settlement. Fun fact Nash was one of 10 American generals killed during the war
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Reckon Ben Franklin must have named that one
Yep
It was.
I appreciate the list, OP. It is confusing! I lived in Kentucky for a a long time and I remember being blown away as a kid because, at the time, Christian county was "wet" (sold booze) while Bourbon county was "dry".
Dyer isn’t in Dyer county, but Dyersburg is!
hehehehe that’s my county!
But Obion is in Obion County! Not that anyone knows where Obion is anyway lol
lol and Gibson is in Gibson County!
Wait till OP finds out to get to Chattanooga from Nashville you have to drive through Georgia
I've done this a few times....and everytime I am very confused
How does this work?
I-24 leaving Chattanooga goes southwest and dips down into Georgia where it splits in two, I-59 to Birmingham and I-24 to Nashville.
Sequatchie isn't in Sequatchie County.
Union City is in Obion County! (And so is Obion 😆)
That’s the county I grew up in !
Grew up there too!
Same!
I’m actually kind of shocked so many people from obion county are on here even though it’s a Tennessee group lol
Me too! Hey y’all!! Who went to Central?
Yep !
Dickson is in Dickson County. Your proof is getting there.
But it isn’t the county seat lol
Don't come to Kentucky. We have both Liberty and West Liberty. West Liberty is about 125 miles EAST of Liberty.
South Fulton (Obion County) is south of Fulton, Kentucky, but a substantial drive NORTHEAST of Fulton, *Tennessee* (Lauderdale County IIRC).
Lol, that's almost identical to Liberty, IA and West Liberty, IA. Liberty is 150 miles south west of West Liberty.
I was cursed with a wonderful child who loves history and have had this conversation more often than any person should be subject to. In the case of McMinnville and McMinn county, they are both named after the same person. The city of McMinnville was established in Warren County before McMinn became a county. The name was already taken, so they couldn't use it for a city. Back when places were being formed, they were set up in a hodge podge way and there was a more limited number of famous/relevant people to name things after so the same people were often used and it was pretty much first come come, first serve with who got to use the name for the county or city.
Keep having that conversation as many times as you can. I know you already know: you're making priceless memories. Thanks for sharing b/c nothing warms my heart like parent inquisitive child bonding stories. One day, many decades from now, your little wonderful will cherish all that.
He's not so little anymore. He's a teenager now, but he's always been like this, and Ill admit I do enjoy our car ride conversations and will eventually miss them. Any time we're in the car he talks constantly about everything from politics to world history. If he's slightly interested in anything, he does a deep dive and learns everything he can about it and usually tells me everything he's learned. I will always be amazed at how he just seems to absorb and remember all the details about so much.
Whatever you've done as a parent, I have a feeling you should be very proud. That's so awesome to hear of a kid/teenager so interested in learning and not addicted to Tic Toc or whatever kids are into these days. Seems like you've got a great one on your hands.
"cursed with a wonderful child..." haha, love your phrasing. That's awesome that he loves history/politics. At his age I most certainly did not have an appreciation for history. (although I do now, 40 years later)
The town of Benton is not in Benton County.
Not even close lol
Jefferson City is in Jefferson County Edit to say Talons Up! Go Carson-Newman!
But isn't the county seat...
The Cumberland Gap isn't in Cumberland county
Pretty sure the Cumberland River isn't near Cumberland county, and neither is Cumberland city
Don’t look at Georgia cities and their corresponding counties then… they do it too.
We do it up here in Iowa, too. Des Moines is in Polk County, not Des Moines County, whose county seat is Burlington which is just north of Keokuk, the county seat of Lee County, and south east of the Keokuk County seat, Sigourney.
Yep Atlanta is in Fulton county
Atlanta is in several counties
Atlanta is slowly eating the entire state of Georgia.
As a lifelong Tennesseean of 32 yrs. I’ve never noticed, nor, looked haha!! This is great! I’m in Rutherford County 😂
Well Rutherford TN is Gibson Co and not Rutherford co lol
Haha more interesting facts! 😂 I need to get around our great state some more then haha
I’ve noticed this too but never put it all together like this. This is great!!
Dyer, Gibson, and Rutherford. All names of towns, and also names of counties. One might expect the towns to be in the counties of the same name (one of them actually is), but *NOPE* - all three are in Gibson County! 😂 Crazy, right? Well, not every place can be like… e.g. Dyersburg or Knoxville! ETA: Perryville *used to be* in Perry County once upon a time, back when Perry County straddled the Tennessee River, but the county lines were redrawn at some point, such that Perryville is now *just across the river* from it, in Decatur County (where Decaturville is also located, but not Decatur). ETA 2: Thought of some more. Fayetteville is a *lengthy* drive east of Fayette County, Maury City is not in Maury County, and Tiptonville is upriver from Tipton County. Henry is in Henry County, but Henry*ville* is in (IIRC) Lawrence County. Henderson and Johnson City are both a short drive southwest from the counties they share (part of) their names with. Greeneville is in Greene County, but Greenfield and Greenbrier are not (yes, I know Greeneville and Greene County have a silent extra “e” not present in Greenfield or Greenbrier). IIRC, neither Cumberland City nor Cumberland Furnace are in Cumberland County. Roan Mountain is not in Roane County (yes, I am aware they’re not spelled the same), nor is Macon in Macon County.
As someone who grew up in McMinnville, I’ve waited my entire life for someone else to notice this and say something lol
😂hmmm
It's Tennessee. Tennessee isn't based in reality.
Lawrenceburg is in Lawrence County!
And Rocky Top ain't nowhere near the Smoky Mountains
But Waynesboro is in Wayne County, and Lawrenceburg is in Lawrence County.
You GOTTA have just enough that make sense to throw off the system. If they all matched it would make sense, if they all didn't match it would make a bit more sense.... And this is Tennessee... We don't do that here, lmao
Sevierville is in Sevier Co.
Came here to say this
A lot of the western counties are named after older cities.
Denmark is in Madison county
Yup. I love it. There are a few, though. Waynesboro is in Wayne county. Dyersburg is in Dyer county.
Wichita County in Kansas is 4 hours from Wichita. I assume Natives had larger settlements in both areas or were forced to move from one to the other.
And Benton isn't in Benton County. Decatur isn't in Decatur County!
i also do not understand the pronounciation of certain towns and cities (looking at you lebaNON)
Readyville is pronounced reedyville as well
Johnson City and Johnson County are close enough to be within the same broadcast area. I used to have to listen extra closely when school closings for snow were announced, as I got a bit too eager when I’d hear “Johnson” and then disappointed when it was the county that got the day off and not the city.
The same can be said for Henderson and Henderson County. Both cities are a short drive *in the same direction* (southwest) from the counties. Crazy coincidence lol!
Welcome to the South.
Tiptonville isn’t in Tipton county.
Greenville is in greene county
GreenEville
Only city of its name with that silent E in the middle AFAIK.
Lol true. Don’t forget lil ole Andersonville in Anderson County
TX also comes to mind.. there’s probably more.. 1. Anderson - Anderson is in Grimes County, not Anderson County. 2. Brownfield - Brownfield is in Terry County, not Brown County. 3. Calvert - Calvert is in Robertson County, not Calvert County. 4. Crockett - Crockett is in Houston County, not Crockett County. 5. Fannin - Fannin is in Goliad County, not Fannin County. 6. Franklin - Franklin is in Robertson County, not Franklin County. 7. Jacksonville - Jacksonville is in Cherokee County, not Jackson County. 8. Tyler - Tyler is in Smith County, not Tyler County.
Houston is in Harris County, not Houston County. Austin is in Travis County, not Austin County.
Towns and cities came before the counties.
Whoa! Whoa! Hey now, ease up! You're gonna hurt yourself.
Is there even a city called Davidson? (Nashville resident over here) Or Williamson? Or Sumner?
Not that I know of. Sometimes, if you read a “listicle” about the “top X number of cities/metro areas for Y”, it will list Nashville as “Nashville-Davidson”, sometimes followed by “-Murfreesboro-Franklin”, which makes Davidson look like a city instead of the county where Nashville is located. AFAIK it’s only called “Nashville-Davidson” because they have a “metropolitan government” setup where city and county are consolidated, which means technically there is no such thing as a “City of Nashville”, if my understanding of that setup is correct. Lexington, KY (aka Lexington-Fayette) has a similar setup. And I *think* Jacksonville, FL does too. Either that or they simply annexed all of unincorporated Duval County, I’m not entirely sure which in this case, because I’ve never heard it referred to as “Jacksonville-Duval”.
>AFAIK it’s only called “Nashville-Davidson” because they have a “metropolitan government” setup where city and county are consolidated, which means technically there is no such thing as a “City of Nashville”, if my understanding of that setup is correct. And there is also technically no such thing as a "County of Davidson." Tenn. Code, Title 7, Chapter 1 provides that the two are consolidated into a single, unified "metropolitan" government that doesn't retain any separate city or county functions outside of what is provided for in the new charter of the metropolitan government or required by the Tennessee Constitution. It also has this lovely gem in 7-1-102(a): >It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent and purpose...to provide for the creation of metropolitan governments, which may be used to fulfill the unique and urgent needs of a **modern metropolitan area.** [Nashville is the very model of a modern metropolitan area](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlTisI_HSgw&t=1s&ab_channel=franz39), or something...
Dyersburg is in Dyer County
But Dyer is in Gibson County.
Yes, and I almost wrote Dyer instead of Dyersburg originally. 😂
And on top of *that*, Dyer and Gibson Counties *border each other!*
Lake City is in Anderson and Campbell Counties
And Lake*land* is in Shelby County.
What about Old Hickory the Blvd? In Nashville getting directions on OHB depends on which of the five OHB locations you are at. 😂 And don't get me started on Demonbreun. 😂
Shelbyville isn’t in Shelby county
Thays what op said.
I noticed this many many years ago and it's because the counties and many of the cities were named after the different people at different times. A person might be notable for a certain county or region of the state but the county named after them could have been established somewhere else in the state long before that.
Rutherford, the city, is not in Rutherford, the county.
I don't know, there are plenty of examples around the country where the city and county have the same name, and honestly I think it was a bit disingenuous back in the day when all those places were named. Like, you couldn't come up with a more original name than SmithVILLE for Smith County?
It's kinda like that in Texas too. Burleson county isn't in burleson. I live right next to burleson
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Seems like you figured it out with your OP. Go Vols
Shelbyville is not in Shelby County
Listen Memphis so the greatest city. That’s all you need
Mane! Memphis it ain't even in Tennessee. Shhhiii....
Named after famous people some towns are in tennessee 2 places and this is why there are hwys streets towns counties and sometime airports named the same name after one person
That’s a great observation I’ve never thought about
At least Henry is in Henry County and Tennessee City is in Tennessee.
At least Dickson is in Dickson, CO lol
*Dickson County
Sevierville is in Sevier County, trust in Dolly
Well, I live in Sumner County. It is named after an American Revolution man named General Jethro Sumner. He never even lived here. We have the Cumberland River, which was named afterca duke in England. It is a crazy world. But I love Tennessee. I have lived all over thevUSA but the land here calms my soul.
What gets me after many different locales I’ve lived in, is the fact you have one road, with its own name, have three different names in about 5-7 miles. 96 goes through Murfreesboro where it’s also called Franklin Road, Old Fort Parkway, Memorial Boulevard and then turns 90 and continues on. Memorial is also 231 and it’s named Lebanon Pike later. Ugh
Memphis is full of streets that change names, multiple times in some cases. A.W. Willis Avenue becomes North Parkway and then Summer Avenue. East Parkway is (IIRC) Trezevant Street north of North Parkway (at the intersection where North Parkway becomes Summer Avenue), and it’s Airways Boulevard south of South Parkway. Stage Avenue in Frayser becomes Stage-Delano Road, James Road, Stage-James Road, Stage Road, and finally US Highway 64. Danny Thomas Boulevard becomes Thomas Street (going north) at some point in North Memphis. It becomes Wellington Street south of E.H. Crump Boulevard (which itself becomes Lamar Avenue, and then Interstate 22 when it hits the MS state line). Covington Pike becomes Stratford Road (going south) shortly after crossing I-40 into the “240 Loop”. Jackson Avenue becomes Austin Peay Highway after crossing I-40 into Raleigh. Florida Street in South Memphis becomes New Horn Lake Road after crossing I-55 (going south) into Whitehaven. Elvis Presley Boulevard becomes Bellevue Boulevard (going north) at some point in South Memphis before dead-ending into Union Avenue. Winchester Road becomes Mitchell Road at some point in Whitehaven if you go far enough west. Canada Road is named Houston Levee Road south of US Highway 64. And there are *plenty* more not listed here. *Do NOT* get me started on the Kirby/Whitten clusterfuck. I get a headache just *thinking* about that one 😩.
McMinnville is in Meth County
Hey Sevierville is in Sevier County!!
Tennessean here. The bad pronunciations are the worst. Blount = Blunt Milan = MYE-lan Lafayette = La-FAY-yett Santa Fe = Santa-FEE Shelbyville = SHEV-vull Eagleville = ee-GAH-vull
Never heard Shelbyville be quite that bad as a Mid-TN native. “Sheh-bee-vul” is what I’ve always heard. Now an East TN transplant and LaFollette still gets me.
They pronounce Maury county as Murray. And Buena Vista as be-You-nuh. SMH
I came from out of state to a family reunion excited to see a cousin I didn’t know I had! When “Murray” finally walked in I went over and gave dear familiar Mary a hug.
Never heard that for Buena Vista. But I *have* heard Maury pronounced “Murray”. Ad nauseam. 😩 Dammit people, it’s “MAW-ree”, not “MUR-ree”!
I’ve never heard Shelbyville, Santa Fe, or Eagleville with those pronounciations. But I can attest to that pronunciation of “La-FAY-ett”. We have a street downtown Jackson named Lafayette, and 9 times out of 10 it gets pronounced “La-FAY-ett”.
Fayetteville is usually Fedvul.
Most geography confuses me
Same here, until 10-15 years ago it's like all the natives suddenly decided to get even more lazy with it. If it follows the same trajectory, in a couple decades they'll just be saying "Shell"
Are other states not like this too?
Kentucky is the same way. Adairville isn’t in Adair county, Hopkinsville isn’t in Hopkins county, taylorsville isn’t in Taylor county, campbellsville isnt in Campbell county, etc.
Decaturville is in Decatur county
Gibson is in gibson county but sadly dyer isn't in dyer county.
Thank you for pointing this out. 😂
I had this same convo with my hubby yesterday
Stewart isn't in Stewart County!
I mean, Loudon is in Loudon County. lol
I live in an area called by at least four different names, all of them accepted and correct and confusing
Benton is not in Benton county
This made me laugh, thank you
Dunlap here!
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California expat? Heh. California cities include of course: - Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County - San Francisco, City and County of - San Diego, in San Diego County - Sacramento, in Sacramento County - Fresno, in Fresno County - Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara County - San Luis Obispo, in San Luis Obispo County Oakland, San Jose, Bakersfield are exceptions although San Jose is in Santa Clara County where the city of Santa Clara is a major suburb
try driving on Old Hickory, I swear there are 30 or 40 of this road!When i first moved here I had always lived in places with a grid system as a basis for the road system, Toronto, New York, Florida... but there are so many roads that loop and turn and the same road with 5 names... or like in Spring Hill there is Buckner... which runs perpendicular to Buckner, with a new exit off 65 called June Lake, which runs up to a stop light where if you continue straight you're on Buckner, if you turn Left you're on Buckner, if you turn right... you guessed it! You're on BUCKNER!!! WTF!!???
Yahoo’s
Douglasville GA is not anywhere near Douglas County
Fort Loudon isn't in Loudon.... There's Nashville and Ashville ... So many others lol
If Jackson was in Jackson County it be be burned overnight and no one would know who did it 🤷♂️
This is a great post. My favorite is; Franklin co and Franklin. Those are two of the most different places I can imagine
Franklin isn't in Franklin County, either Sincerely, someone who has been to Franklin County twice and has never touched Franklin, TN near Nashville
Wait to you see how roads are named...
Recently located to kentucky from the west coast and I’ve noticed the same exact thing here. I’m used to Washington city being in Washington county for example or there simply not being a city/town name that corresponds with a county.
Oh man, Texas has a lot of that going on as well, lol.