Boyds Creek is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Sevier County,

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, United States. It is named for a small southward-flowing tributary of the

French Broad River The French Broad River is a river in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Tennessee. It flows from near the town of Rosman, North Carolina, Rosman in Transylvania County, North Carolina, into Tennessee, where its confluence with the Holston R ...

of the same name, which itself derives its name from a Virginian trader, killed by a band of

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people, whose body was thrown into the stream. The creek was the site of a 1780 battle (The Battle of Boyd's Creek) between white settlers and Cherokee angry at the settlers' encroachment onto their hunting territory.

Geography

The community has a mean elevation of 899 feet (274 metres).

References

Unincorporated communities in Sevier County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee 18th-century Cherokee history {{SevierCountyTN-geo-stub