Rocky Top
Sign in to saveAlso known as Rocky Top, USA, Rocky Top, Tennessee, Lake City, USA, Lake City, Tennessee, Coal Creek, USA, Coal Creek, Tennessee, Rocky Top, TN
city in Tennessee, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Tennessee
- Counties
- Anderson , Campbell
- Named after
- Rocky Top
- Type
- council-manager
- Mayor
- Kerry Templin
- City manager
- Michael Ellis
- City council
- List of Councilmen Mack Bunch(also Vice Mayor) Jeff Gilliam Stacy Phillips Zack Green
- Total
- 1.62 sq mi (4.19 km )
- Land
- 1.62 sq mi (4.19 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 869 ft (265 m)
- Density
- 1,005.5/sq mi (388.22/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 47-40240
- Website
- rockytoptn .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Rocky Top (formerly Coal Creek and Lake City) is a city in Anderson and Campbell counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, northwest of Knoxville. The population was 1,628 at the 2020 US Census. Most of the community is in Anderson County and is included in the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area. On June 26, 2014, the city officially changed its name from Lake City to Rocky Top, after a last-ditch effort by the copyright owners of the song "Rocky Top" was denied by a federal court.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rocky Top” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.