Petros ( ) 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 ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 counte ...

(CDP) in Morgan County, Tennessee, United States, located on State Route 116. Its population was 459 at the 2020 census. Petros has its own post office, with the ZIP code 37845. Petros is historically a

coal mining Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...

town and is the site of the Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary tourist attraction opened in 2018 on the site of the former prison. Some of the town and coal mine scenes for the movie '' October Sky'' were filmed there. Famous YouTube channel " Angry Grandma" was born here and lived her younger years here as well.

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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