Germantown
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city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Tennessee
- County
- Shelby
- Type
- Mayor–council
- Mayor
- Mike Palazzolo
- City
- 20.012 sq mi (51.831 km )
- Land
- 19.987 sq mi (51.767 km )
- Water
- 0.025 sq mi (0.064 km ) 0.12%
- Elevation
- 318 ft (97 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 40,128
- Rank
- US: 1029th, TN: 23rd
- Density
- 2,068.0/sq mi (798.44/km )
- Urban
- 1,056,190 (US: 45th )
- Metro
- 1,341,412 (US: 45th )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 38138, 38139, 38183
- Fips code
- 47-28960
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Germantown
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Shelby County
- Population
- 41333
- Area
- 51.80534
- Elevation
- 115
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Official website
- www.germantown-tn.gov
- Image
- Germantown - panoramio (1).jpg
- Households
- 14944
- Dialing code
- 901
Show 10 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Germantown, Tennessee
- twinned administrative body
- Königs Wusterhausen
- Commons category
- Germantown, Tennessee
- inception
- 1825-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Germantown, Tennessee
- P8168
- Evelin Jahl
- water as percent of area
- 0.1537
- per capita income
- 61788
- native label
- Germantown
- postal code
- 38183
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Encyclopedic overview
Germantown is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 41,333 at the 2020 census, and was estimated at 40,128 in 2024, making it the 23rd-most populous city in Tennessee. It was given a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence in 2019.
Germantown is an eastern suburb of Memphis. Germantown was founded in 1841 by mostly German emigrants. The town hosts festivals year-round to celebrate their history and German culture. In the city center is the "Old Germantown" neighborhood, anchored by a railroad depot (a 1948 reproduction of the 1868 original) and railroad tracks that recall the community's earliest days of development as an outpost along the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Germantown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.