Editing Crossville, Tennessee

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| leader_name        = RJ Crawford<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://crossvilletn.gov/city-council/|title=City Council – City of Crossville, TN}}</ref>
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| population_total   = 12071
| population_density_km2 = 227.96
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'''Crossville''' is a city in and the [[county seat]] of [[Cumberland County, Tennessee]], United States.<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 }}</ref> It is part of the [[Crossville Micropolitan Statistical Area]].<ref>United States Census Bureau, [https://www.census.gov/econ/census02/data/metro1/M18900.HTM Crossville, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area].  Retrieved: June 25, 2013.</ref> The population was 12,071 at the 2020 census.<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4718540| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Crossville city, Tennessee| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=July 7, 2015| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213041545/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4718540| archive-date=February 13, 2020| url-status=dead}}</ref>

==History==
Crossville developed at the intersection of a branch of the [[Great Stage Road]], which connected the [[Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]] area with the [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] area, and the [[Kentucky Stock Road]], a cattle drovers' path connecting [[Middle Tennessee]] with [[Kentucky]] and later extending south to [[Chattanooga, Tennessee|Chattanooga]]. These two roads are roughly paralleled by modern US-70 and US-127, respectively.<ref>Helen Bullard and Joseph Krechniak, ''Cumberland County's First Hundred Years'' (Crossville, Tenn.: Centennial Committee, 1956), 22-26</ref><ref>''The WPA Guide to Tennessee'' (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986), 442. Originally compiled by the [[Federal Writers' Project]] of the [[Works Project Administration]] as ''Tennessee: A Guide to the State'', and published in 1939.</ref>

[[File:Piggly Wiggly grocery - NARA - 280994.jpg|left|thumb|220px|1939 photo of Crossville's [[Piggly Wiggly]], which at the time was located at the corner of Main and 2nd]]

Around 1800, an early American settler, Samuel Lambeth, opened a store at this junction, and the small community that developed around it became known as Lambeth's Crossroads. The store was at what has become the intersection of Main and Stanley Streets, just south of the courthouse. By the time a post office was established in the 1830s, the community had taken the name "Crossville". In the early 1850s, James Scott, a merchant from nearby [[Sparta, Tennessee|Sparta]], purchased Lambeth's store and renamed it Scott's Tavern.<ref name=bullard>Bullard and Krechniak, ''Cumberland County's First Hundred Years'', 180-188.</ref>

When Cumberland County was formed in 1856, Crossville, being nearest to the center of the county, was chosen as county seat. Scott donated the initial {{convert|40|acre|ha}} for the erection of a courthouse and town square.<ref name="bullard"/>

Crossville and Cumberland County suffered rampant pillaging throughout the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] as the well-developed roads made the area accessible to both occupying [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] and [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces and bands of renegade [[guerrilla]]s. With divided communities and families, there was vicious guerrilla warfare, and residents suffered as if there were major battles in the area.<ref>[http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=265 Larry H. Whiteaker, "Civil War"], ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of Culture and History'', 2009, accessed November 7, 2011</ref> The county was divided throughout the conflict, sending a roughly equal number of troops to both sides.<ref name="Brookhart">[http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=336 G. Donald Brookhart, "Cumberland County"], Tennessee Encyclopedia of Culture and History'', 2009, accessed November 7, 2011</ref>

After World War I, [[U.S. 70]] helped connect the town and area to markets for its produce and goods. Additional highways built after World War II improved transportation in the region.<ref name="Brookhart"/>

During the [[Great Depression]], the federal government's Subsistence Homestead Division initiated a housing project south of Crossville known as the [[Cumberland Homesteads]]. The project's purpose was to provide small farms for several hundred impoverished families. The project's recreational area later became the nucleus for [[Cumberland Mountain State Park]].<ref name="Brookhart"/> In 1934, First Lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] visited Crossville and the Cumberland Homesteads Project.

Crossville was a [[sundown town]] as late as the 1950s, with a sign at the city limits warning African Americans not to stay after nightfall.<ref>{{cite news|title=How Far From Slavery? Segregation Is 'Great Debate'|first=Carl T.|last=Rowan|author-link=Carl Rowan|work=[[Star Tribune|Minneapolis Morning Tribune]]|location=Minneapolis|date=March 1, 1951|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29073875/|via=Newspapers.com|quote=I have been in Crossville before—but not for long. No Negroes are allowed to live here. On a tree near the city limits is this sign: 'Nigger, don't let the sun set on you here.' Since it is early morning and the sun long has set, I remain aboard the bus for the 20-minute stop here. I do see two Negro passengers going down a corridor into the kitchen for sandwiches, however. But even in this all-white community (one Negro family lived just outside it eight years ago, but has moved now) I can write about progress in the south—progress that would be noticed only by a Negro grown sensitive to the little shades of race relations.}}</ref>

==Geography==
[[File:Crossville-tennessee-signfusion1.jpg|right|210px|thumb|Crossville has long been a great crossroads of East and Middle Tennessee.]]
Crossville is located at the center of Cumberland County at {{coord|35|57|15|N|85|1|53|W|type:city}} (35.954221, -85.031267).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> The city is situated atop the [[Cumberland Plateau]] amid the headwaters of the [[Obed River]], which slices a gorge north of Crossville en route to its confluence with the [[Emory River]] to the northeast. Crossville is roughly halfway between the plateau's eastern escarpment along [[Walden Ridge]] and its western escarpment along the [[Highland Rim]]. Several small lakes are on Crossville's outskirts, including Lake Tansi to the south, Lake Holiday to the west, and Byrd Lake at nearby [[Cumberland Mountain State Park]]. The average elevation of Crossville is about {{convert|1890|ft}} above sea level.

Crossville developed at the intersection of two major stage roads by which settlers moved through the area. The roads were gradually widened, improved and turned into paved roads. Two major federal highways—[[U.S. Route 70 in Tennessee|U.S. Route 70]], which traverses Tennessee from east to west, and [[U.S. Route 127 (Tennessee)|U.S. Route 127]], which traverses Tennessee from north to south—now roughly follow the old routes. [[Interstate 40 in Tennessee|Interstate 40]], which runs roughly parallel to U.S. 70, passes through the northern part of Crossville. Crossville is about {{convert|35|mi}} east of [[Cookeville, Tennessee|Cookeville]], {{convert|80|mi}} north of [[Chattanooga, Tennessee|Chattanooga]], and {{convert|70|mi}} west of [[Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], Crossville has an area of {{convert|52.7|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|51.7|km2|order=flip}} is land and {{convert|1.0|km2|order=flip|1}}, or 1.95%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010"/>

=== Climate ===
Crossville has a [[humid subtropical climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]] ''Cfa''), with warm summers and cool winters. Temperatures in Crossville are moderated by the city's high elevation and the [[Cumberland Plateau]]. Precipitation is abundant and evenly distributed (although the early autumn months are drier), with an average of {{convert|55.55|in|mm|abbr=on}}. Snowfall is moderate and somewhat common, with an average of {{convert|14.2|in|cm|abbr=on}}.
{{Weather box
|location = Crossville, Tennessee (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1912–present)
|single line = Yes
|Jan record high F = 81
|Feb record high F = 77
|Mar record high F = 82
|Apr record high F = 91
|May record high F = 95
|Jun record high F = 102
|Jul record high F = 102
|Aug record high F = 102
|Sep record high F = 103
|Oct record high F = 90
|Nov record high F = 80
|Dec record high F = 73
|year record high F = 103

|Jan avg record high F = 63.5
|Feb avg record high F = 66.7
|Mar avg record high F = 74.0
|Apr avg record high F = 79.9
|May avg record high F = 83.8
|Jun avg record high F = 88.5
|Jul avg record high F = 90.4
|Aug avg record high F = 89.7
|Sep avg record high F = 87.6
|Oct avg record high F = 81.1
|Nov avg record high F = 72.3
|Dec avg record high F = 64.3
|year avg record high F = 91.9

|Jan high F = 41.6
|Feb high F = 45.4
|Mar high F = 53.6
|Apr high F = 63.5
|May high F = 71.6
|Jun high F = 78.5
|Jul high F = 81.8
|Aug high F = 81.1
|Sep high F = 75.9
|Oct high F = 65.7
|Nov high F = 54.1
|Dec high F = 45.1
|year high F = 63.2
|Jan mean F = 33.4
|Feb mean F = 36.7
|Mar mean F = 44.3
|Apr mean F = 53.5
|May mean F = 61.8
|Jun mean F = 69.0
|Jul mean F = 72.5
|Aug mean F = 71.4
|Sep mean F = 65.6
|Oct mean F = 54.8
|Nov mean F = 44.4
|Dec mean F = 37.0
|year mean F = 53.7
|Jan low F = 25.1
|Feb low F = 28.0
|Mar low F = 35.0
|Apr low F = 43.5
|May low F = 52.0
|Jun low F = 59.6
|Jul low F = 63.2
|Aug low F = 61.7
|Sep low F = 55.3
|Oct low F = 43.8
|Nov low F = 34.6
|Dec low F = 28.9
|year low F = 44.2

|Jan avg record low F = 4.5
|Feb avg record low F = 9.2
|Mar avg record low F = 17.2
|Apr avg record low F = 28.2
|May avg record low F = 36.1
|Jun avg record low F = 48.7
|Jul avg record low F = 55.2
|Aug avg record low F = 53.7
|Sep avg record low F = 41.1
|Oct avg record low F = 27.9
|Nov avg record low F = 18.9
|Dec avg record low F = 11.3
|year avg record low F = 1.4

|Jan record low F = -25
|Feb record low F = -15
|Mar record low F = -6
|Apr record low F = 14
|May record low F = 28
|Jun record low F = 33
|Jul record low F = 40
|Aug record low F = 41
|Sep record low F = 27
|Oct record low F = 15
|Nov record low F = -7
|Dec record low F = -17
|year record low F = -25
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation inch = 5.49
|Feb precipitation inch = 5.66
|Mar precipitation inch = 6.08
|Apr precipitation inch = 6.07
|May precipitation inch = 5.35
|Jun precipitation inch = 5.27
|Jul precipitation inch = 5.31
|Aug precipitation inch = 4.14
|Sep precipitation inch = 4.28
|Oct precipitation inch = 3.68
|Nov precipitation inch = 4.70
|Dec precipitation inch = 6.54
|year precipitation inch = 62.57
|Jan snow inch = 3.5
|Feb snow inch = 4.4
|Mar snow inch = 2.7
|Apr snow inch = 0.2
|May snow inch = 0.0
|Jun snow inch = 0.0
|Jul snow inch = 0.0
|Aug snow inch = 0.0
|Sep snow inch = 0.0
|Oct snow inch = 0.0
|Nov snow inch = 0.2
|Dec snow inch = 3.1
|year snow inch = 14.1
|unit precipitation days = 0.01 in
|Jan precipitation days = 15.2
|Feb precipitation days = 13.2
|Mar precipitation days = 14.3
|Apr precipitation days = 13.1
|May precipitation days = 13.6
|Jun precipitation days = 13.3
|Jul precipitation days = 12.8
|Aug precipitation days = 10.9
|Sep precipitation days = 9.6
|Oct precipitation days = 9.8
|Nov precipitation days = 11.4
|Dec precipitation days = 14.0
|year precipitation days = 151.2
|unit snow days = 0.1 in
|Jan snow days = 4.1
|Feb snow days = 3.2
|Mar snow days = 1.4
|Apr snow days = 0.1
|May snow days = 0.0
|Jun snow days = 0.0
|Jul snow days = 0.0
|Aug snow days = 0.0
|Sep snow days = 0.0
|Oct snow days = 0.0
|Nov snow days = 0.2
|Dec snow days = 2.4
|year snow days = 11.4
|source 1 = [[NOAA]]<ref name= NOWData>
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| url = https://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=ohx
| title = NowData - NOAA Online Weather Data
| publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
| access-date = June 18, 2021}}</ref><ref name=NCEI>
{{cite web
| url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&startDate=0001-01-01&endDate=9996-12-31&stations=USC00402202&format=pdf
| title = Station: Crossville ED & Research, TN
| work = U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020)
| publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
| access-date = June 18, 2021}}</ref>
|date=November 2014
}}

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1870= 95
|1880= 99
|1890= 266
|1910= 763
|1920= 948
|1930= 1128
|1940= 1511
|1950= 2291
|1960= 4668
|1970= 5381
|1980= 6394
|1990= 6930
|2000= 8981
|2010= 10795
|2020= 12071
|footnote=Sources:<ref name="GR9">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=March 4, 2012|title=Census of Population and Housing: Decennial Censuses}}</ref><ref name="USCensusDecennial2020CenPopScriptOnly">{{cite web|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=P1_001N,NAME&for=place:*&in=state:47&key=5ccd0821c15d9f4520e2dcc0f8d92b2ec9336108|title=Census Population API|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=October 15, 2022}}</ref>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Crossville racial composition<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US4718540&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 27, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
| 10,572
| 87.58%
|-
!scope="row"| [[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
| 111
| 0.92%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
| 25
| 0.21%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
| 193
| 1.6%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]]
| 1
| 0.01%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
| 404
| 3.35%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
| 765
| 6.34%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 12,071 people, 5,040 households, and 2,777 families residing in the city.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 8,981 people, 3,795 households, and 2,440 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|609.2|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 4,268 housing units at an average density of {{convert|289.5|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 97.12% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.04% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.23% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.35% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.04% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.04% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.18% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] people of any race were 2.43% of the population.

There were 3,795 households, out of which 27.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.2% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 15.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.7% were non-families. 31.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.79.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 22.6% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.5 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $25,796, and the median income for a family was $33,207. Males had a median income of $26,735 versus $20,217 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $18,066. About 21.7% of families and 24.6% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 36.2% of those under age 18 and 20.6% of those age 65 or over.

Recent population estimates show the population of Crossville around 11,498 in 2008.

==Points of interest==
[[File:The Palace Theater.jpg|right|210px|thumb|Palace Theatre]]
[[File:Crossville Tennessee Highway Patrol Building.jpg|right|210px|thumb|Native Stone Museum, one of many buildings in Crossville built of Crab Orchard Stone]]
*[[Cumberland Mountain State Park]] is immediately south of Crossville.
* The [[Cumberland Homesteads]] are also south of Crossville.
* The Native Stone Museum, in a 1930s-era Tennessee Highway Patrol station on the courthouse square, is dedicated to Crab Orchard Stone, a local building material used in many of the city's buildings.
* The [[Palace Theater (Crossville, Tennessee)|Palace Theatre]], which opened in 1938, still serves as a theater, performance venue, and meeting hall.<ref>[http://www.palacetheatre-crossville.com/ Palace Theatre official website]. Accessed July 19, 2016.</ref>
* The [[United States Chess Federation]] moved its corporate offices to Crossville from [[New Windsor, New York]], in 2005. In 2022 the USCF announced that it would leave Crossville for St. Louis.
* The [[Highway 127 Corridor Sale]], promoted as the world's largest [[yard sale]], is held annually in August.
* The Cumberland County Playhouse is rural Tennessee's only major nonprofit professional performing arts resource, and one of rural America's 10 largest professional theaters. It serves more than 165,000 visitors annually with two indoor and two outdoor stages, young audience productions, a comprehensive dance program, a concert series and touring shows.<ref>[http://www.ccplayhouse.com Cumberland County Playhouse official site]. Accessed July 19, 2016.</ref>
* Crossville calls itself "the golf capital of Tennessee" and features 12 courses: Stonehenge, Heatherhurst Crag, Heatherhurst Brae, Deer Creek, River Run, Four Seasons, The Bear Trace, Dorchester, Mountain Ridge, Renegade, Druid Hills, and Lake Tansi.
* The Cumberland County Fair is held every August.
* [[Art Circle Public Library]]
* [[Horace Burgess's Treehouse]], a treehouse and church, closed in 2012.
* A [[free-speech]] zone on the Cumberland County Courthouse lawn was the site of several unofficial displays, including a statue of the [[Flying Spaghetti Monster]], an Iraq and Afghanistan Soldier's Memorial, a miniature [[Statue of Liberty]], [[chainsaw carving]]s of a [[nativity scene]], Jesus carrying the cross, and monkeys and bears.<ref>Gary Nelson, [http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/news/local_news/flying-spaghetti-monster-takes-up-residence-at-county-courthouse/article_874a82d9-1cc3-50db-883a-047ce162b219.html Flying Spaghetti Monster takes up residence at county courthouse], ''Crossville Chronicle'', March 24, 2008</ref> As of April 30, 2008, the lawn is no longer a free-speech zone due largely to the controversy caused by the Flying Spaghetti Monster statue.<ref>Gary Nelson, "[http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/news/local_news/courthouse-no-longer-hosting-free-speech-displays/article_7bec0d85-5715-5c78-b92d-63456ba1f55b.html Courthouse No Longer Hosting Free Speech Displays]."  ''The Crossville Chronicle'', April 15, 2008.  Retrieved: July 10, 2008.</ref>

==Notable people==
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* [[Mandy Barnett]], country music singer and actress born in Crossville<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mandy Barnett|url=https://www.mandybarnett.com/|access-date=August 25, 2021|website=Mandy Barnett|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Julie Ann Emery]], actress born and raised here<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040404065302/http://julieannemery.com/ Julie Ann Emery website]</ref>
* [[Stormi Henley]], Miss Tennessee Teen USA 2009, Miss Teen USA 2009<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.missuniverse.com/missteenusa/news/view/41 |title=Miss Teen USA : News |access-date=August 1, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804204850/http://www.missuniverse.com/missteenusa/news/view/41 |archive-date=August 4, 2009 }}</ref>
* [[Milo Lemert]], posthumous [[Medal of Honor]] recipient for action near [[Bellicourt]], France, during [[World War I]] and buried in Crossville City Cemetery
* [[Earl Lloyd]], first [[African-American]] to play in an [[NBA]] basketball game
* [[Thomas Shadden]], politician, member of the [[Tennessee General Assembly]] and Crossville mayor
* [[Michael Sims]], acclaimed nonfiction writer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.michaelsimsbooks.com/|title=michaelsimsbooks.com|website=www.michaelsimsbooks.com}}</ref>
* [[Charles Edward Snodgrass]], U.S. representative
* [[Michael Turner (comics)|Michael Turner]], comic book artist, born in Crossville; president of the entertainment company [[Aspen MLT]]
* [[Marjorie Weaver]], film actress

==See also==
* [[List of sundown towns in the United States]]

==Further reading==
*''Crossville, Tennessee Pictorial History''. Nashville: Turner Publishing Company (2001). {{ISBN|1-56311-767-3}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Crossville, Tennessee}}
* [http://www.crossvilletn.gov City of Crossville official website]
* [http://crossville-chamber.com Crossville-Cumberland County Chamber of Commerce]
* [http://www.ccplayhouse.com/ Cumberland County Playhouse]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160110135259/http://speakupcrossville.com/ Speak Up Crossville ] 
* [http://crossvillenews1st.com Crossville News First]  
* [http://www.mtas.tennessee.edu/gml-mtas.nsf/Webstatecityinfo/1E8F9F0876D69D2285256AF7005EDA37?OpenDocument Municipal Technical Advisory Service entry for Crossville] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816032945/http://www.mtas.tennessee.edu/gml-mtas.nsf/Webstatecityinfo/1E8F9F0876D69D2285256AF7005EDA37?OpenDocument |date=August 16, 2016 }} — information on local government, elections, and link to charter

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