Boyds Creek is an unincorporated community in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. In Law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any Municipality. Sevier County (pronounced "severe" is a US county of the state of Tennessee, United States. Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It is named for a small southward-flowing tributary of the French Broad River of the same name, which itself derives its name from a Virginian trader killed by a band of Cherokee Indians whose body was thrown into the stream. The French Broad River flows from near Rosman in Transylvania County, North Carolina, into Tennessee. The Cherokee (ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ a-ni-yv-wi-ya, in the Cherokee language) are a people native to North America, who at the time of European contact The creek was the site of a 1780 battle (The Battle of Boyd's Creek) between white settlers and Cherokee angry at their encroachment onto their hunting territory[1].
Geography
The community has a mean elevation of 899 feet (274 metres)[2].