Johnson City, Tennessee

Johnson City is a city in Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, mostly in Washington County. Located in an Appalachian valley near the Boone Lake impoundment of the Watauga River, Johnson City is Tennessee's eighth-most populous city, with a population of 71,046 as of the 2020 Census. Johnson City is the largest city of the Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Tri-Cities (Tennessee-Virginia) region of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, which contains Kingsport, Tennessee and Bristol, Tennessee and had a population of 585,041 at the 2020 Census.

Johnson City is the nearest city to the first permanent European-American settlement in present-day Tennessee, which was built in 1768 by William Bean. Johnson City was founded as Johnson Depot in 1856, and incorporated as Johnson City in 1869. Once a railroad boomtown, Johnson City is today a hub for medicine and education, as the home to East Tennessee State University, the largest university in Northeast Tennessee, as well as the headquarters of Ballad Health, the region's largest health system.