Miston is an

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and

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(CDP) in

Dyer County Dyer County is a county located in the westernmost part of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,801. The county seat is Dyersburg. Dyer County comprises the Dyersburg, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area. ...

Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...

, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. It is in the northwest part of the county, along Tennessee State Route 103, which leads east to Bogota and west the same distance to Tennessee State Route 181, less than east of the

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. Dyersburg, the

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, is southeast of Miston.

Demographics

Education

The school district is the Dyer County School District.
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/ref> The zoned high school is Dyer County High School in Newbern.

References

Populated places in Dyer County, Tennessee Census-designated places in Dyer County, Tennessee Census-designated places in Tennessee {{DyerCountyTN-geo-stub