Petros (pronounced pee-tross) is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) in Morgan County,

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

, United States, located on State Route 116. Its population was 583 as of the 2010 census. Petros has its own post office, with the ZIP code 37845. Petros is historically a

coal mining Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

town and is also the home of (the now closed)

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary last named Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex (also called ''Brushy'') was a large maximum-security prison in the town of Petros in Morgan County, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correctio ...

. Some of the town and coal mine scenes for the movie ''

October Sky ''October Sky'' is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern. The screenplay by Lewis Colick, based on the memoir of the same name, tells the true ...

'' were filmed there. Also home to Petros Joyner school

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Census-designated places in Morgan County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee Census-designated places in Tennessee Mining communities in Tennessee Coal towns in Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Morgan County, Tennessee {{MorganCountyTN-geo-stub