Hunter (also called Stoney Creek) is a

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(CDP) and

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located northeast of

Elizabethton Elizabethton () is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of bo ...

Carter County, Tennessee Carter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,356. Its county seat is Elizabethton. The county is named in honor of Landon Carter (1760–1800), an early settler active in the ...

, along

Tennessee State Route 91 State Route 91 (SR 91) is a state highway in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the area known as the Tri-Cities region. The route connects Johnson City with Damascus, Virginia via Elizabethton, Hunter, and Mounta ...

and the

Watauga River The Watauga River () is a large stream of western North Carolina and East Tennessee. It is long with its headwaters in Linville Gap to the South Fork Holston River at Boone Lake. Course The Watauga River rises from a spring located south to ...

. Its population was 1,854 as of the 2010 census. It is part of the Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the

Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area The Tri-Cities is the region comprising the cities of Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol and the surrounding smaller towns and communities in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. All three cities are located in Northeast Tennessee, ...

– commonly known as the " Tri-Cities" region. Hunter is a suburb of Elizabethton.

Geography

Hunter is located at (36.376630, -82.155032). According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , of which of it is land and of it (0.39%) is water. The

forms a southern boundary for the Hunter community, while the

Holston Mountain Holston Mountain is a mountain ridge in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, southwest Virginia, in the United States. It is in the Blue Ridge Mountains part of the Appalachian Mountains. Holston Mountain is a very prominent ridge-type mo ...

forms a northern boundary.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 1,566 people, 689 households, and 491 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 729 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 99.17%

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, 0.13%

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, 0.06% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 0.06% from other races, and 0.45% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 1.15% of the population. There were 689 households, out of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.9% were

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living together, 10.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.7% were non-families. 25.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.71. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 19.3% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 27.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.5 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $30,968, and the median income for a family was $37,981. Males had a median income of $25,000 versus $20,668 for females. The

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for the CDP was $15,590. About 5.6% of families and 8.7% of the population were below the

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, including 9.7% of those under age 18 and 8.5% of those age 65 or over.

Education

Schools in Hunter/Stoney Creek are operated by Carter County Schools: *Hunter Elementary – Grades PK–8 *Unaka Elementary – Grades PK–8 *Unaka High - Grades 9–12 The Elizabethton campus of Northeast State Community College is located near Hunter.

Connection with U.S. Interstate Highway System

Interstate 26 Interstate 26 (I-26) is a main route of the Interstate Highway System in the Southeastern United States. Nominally east–west, as indicated by its even number, I-26 runs from the junction of U.S. Route 11W, US Route 11W (US 11W) ...

Exit 24 at Johnson City then east on

Tennessee State Route 67 State Route 67 (SR 67) is a state-maintained highway in northeastern Tennessee, including a four-lane divided highway segments in both Washington County and Carter County, and part of a significant two-lane segment passing over the Butler Br ...

, then left on

/US 19E then right on

Stoney Creek Exit to Hunter.

References

External links

Tennessee Technology Center, Elizabethton Tennessee Home Page
{{authority control Census-designated places in Carter County, Tennessee Census-designated places in Tennessee Johnson City metropolitan area, Tennessee