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Knox County sits in classic Ridge-and-Valley country, where Sharp's Ridge, Beaver Ridge and Copper Ridge run northeast to southwest between settled valleys. The Holston and French Broad rivers meet at Forks-of-the-River to form the Tennessee, and House Mountain near Corryton tops out around 2,064 feet. Inside that terrain is nearly every kind of roof East Tennessee has: early 1900s houses in Knoxville's older neighborhoods, postwar ranches, homes along Fort Loudoun and Melton Hill lakes, and newer subdivisions spreading through Karns, Powell and Hardin Valley.
Blount County runs from Fort Loudoun Lake on its northern edge to Thunderhead Mountain, its highest point at 5,527 feet, inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Chilhowee Mountain crosses the middle of the county and marks the geologic line between the Ridge-and-Valley and the Blue Ridge. That split shapes roofing here: suburban streets around Maryville and Alcoa on one side, and coves, cabins and steep wooded lots around Townsend, Walland and Happy Valley on the other.
Federal projects shaped Anderson County's housing as much as the land did. The Tennessee Valley Authority built Norris Dam on the Clinch River from 1933 to 1936 and laid out the town of Norris to house its workers, and in 1942 the Manhattan Project brought Oak Ridge. North of Clinton the ground rises toward the Cumberland Mountains and former coal communities such as Briceville and Rocky Top, while Andersonville sits just south of Norris Lake and its wooded coves.
Water defines Loudon County. The Little Tennessee River meets the Tennessee at Lenoir City, Fort Loudoun Dam holds back Fort Loudoun Lake, Tellico Dam forms Tellico Lake, and below the dam the river becomes part of Watts Bar Lake. About 18 of the county's 247 square miles are water. Growth has been steady too, from about 39,000 residents in 2000 to nearly 55,000 in 2020, so local roofers work on everything from older homes in Loudon to lakefront houses and new subdivisions.
Sevier County climbs from the French Broad River and Douglas Lake in the north to Kuwohi, formerly Clingmans Dome, at 6,643 feet on the North Carolina line. The three forks of the Little Pigeon River run north out of the Smokies and converge near Sevierville. After the national park ended large-scale logging, tourism took over the economy, and the cabin rental business has grown tremendously. The result is a roofing mix unlike anywhere nearby: mountain cabins, condos, farmhouses and suburban homes.
Jefferson County sits between two TVA reservoirs: Douglas Lake on the French Broad River to the south and Cherokee Lake on the Holston to the north. Water covers about 13 percent of its 314 square miles. Dandridge, the county seat, was settled in 1783, and most of its downtown lies below Douglas Lake's high-water mark behind a levee TVA built after residents appealed to Washington. Jefferson City, White Pine and New Market fill out a county of lake houses, small-town streets and farmland crossed by I-40 and I-81.
Roane County straddles the boundary between the Tennessee Valley and the Cumberland Plateau, and the escarpment of Walden Ridge is visible from much of it. The Clinch, Emory and Tennessee rivers meet at Kingston, and most of that water now belongs to Watts Bar Lake. Each town has its own story: Kingston grew from Fort Southwest Point in the 1790s, Harriman was planned as a temperance town in 1889, and Rockwood became an iron and coal center at the foot of the ridge.
Union County is ridge-and-valley country. Copper Ridge, Hinds Ridge and Lone Mountain run across it, and Maynardville sits near the center of narrow Raccoon Valley, about 15 miles from Knoxville along State Route 33. The Clinch River crosses the north end as part of Norris Lake, and water makes up nearly a tenth of the county's area. When TVA's Norris Dam flooded the valley in the 1930s, towns such as Loyston disappeared and families went through what they called The Move.
Clinch Mountain splits Grainger County in two. South of it lie Rutledge, Bean Station, Blaine and Joppa, with Cherokee Lake along the southern edge; the northern section reaches the Clinch River arm of Norris Lake. Tomatoes have long been the leading crop, and the county counted more than 650 greenhouses in 2018. TVA's Cherokee Dam flooded the original Bean Station in 1942, and nearly half of the families relocated for that project came from Grainger County.
Campbell County sits where the Cumberland Mountains to the northwest meet the Ridge-and-Valley to the southeast. Elevations run from just under 1,000 feet near Norris Lake to 3,534 feet on Cross Mountain. Early in the 20th century, coal from the Jellico area made it Tennessee's largest coal-producing county. Today LaFollette sits in Powell Valley with Jacksboro and Caryville nearby along U.S. 25W, Norris Lake spreads to the south, and Jellico sits in the mountains on the Kentucky line.
Morgan County lies on the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau, a place of rugged mountain terrain, cold streams and small towns. The Crab Orchard Mountains rise around Frozen Head State Park, the Obed Wild and Scenic River joins the Emory southwest of Wartburg, and U.S. 27 runs south to Harriman and I-40. Wartburg was founded in the mid-1840s by German and Swiss settlers, and Rugby, on the county's northwest side, was started in 1880 by English author Thomas Hughes.
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