Ten Mile 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 northern Meigs and southeastern Roane counties in the

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. Ten Mile is primarily a summer cottage community on Watts Bar Lake. It includes summer cottages, small locally owned stores and restaurants, a bank, marinas, resorts, churches, and a post office ( ZIP code 37880). The nearby TVA Watts Bar nuclear plant (in bordering Rhea County), and Watts Bar Dam spanning the

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across the Meigs County and Rhea County lines have played, and continue to play, an important role in the local economy. Ten Mile originated in a small community at the cross of Old Ten Mile and Ten Mile roads, which is next to Ten Mile Creek. The community consisted of a small school, a post office and two churches. The town has now moved closer to Watts Bar Lake. The only things that still exist in the old community are the two churches. The Ten Mile community is named after the stream flowing through it, Ten Mile Creek. Although there are no definitive archives to specifically document who named the stream Ten Mile Creek or why, based on early maps of the area, the best educated guess is that the length of the creek measures approximately 10 miles. The Ten Mile zip code 37880 had a 2020 population of 3477.

Historic house

The Elisha Sharp House was added to the

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on July 6, 1982. "TENNESSEE - Meigs County," National Register of Historic Places, http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/tn/Meigs/state.html

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Why do they call it that? Ten Mile community in Meigs and Roane Counties
WBIR-TV website. Unincorporated communities in Roane County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Meigs County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee Tennessee populated places on the Tennessee River {{RoaneCountyTN-geo-stub