West Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The Grand Divisions are geographic cultural and legally recognized regions each constituting roughly one-third of the State of Tennessee. A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. Of the three, it is the most sharply defined geographically. Its boundaries are the Mississippi River on the west and the Tennessee River on the east. The Mississippi River is the second longest River in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. The region's boundaries expand slightly to include the entirety of Hardin County, which is bisected by the Tennessee River. Hardin County is a County located in the US state of Tennessee.
Unlike the geographic designations of regions of most U. S. states, the term West Tennessee has legal as well as socioeconomic meaning. West Tennessee, along with East Tennessee and Middle Tennessee, comprises one of the state's three Grand Divisions. East Tennessee is a name given to approximately the eastern third of the state of Tennessee, one of Middle Tennessee is a distinct portion of the state of Tennessee, delineated according to state law as the 41 counties The Grand Divisions are geographic cultural and legally recognized regions each constituting roughly one-third of the State of Tennessee. According to the state constitution, no more than two of the state supreme court's five justices can come from any one Grand Division, and the Supreme Court meets in each of the three (the State Supreme Court building for West Tennessee is in Jackson). A constitution is a system for government often Codified as a written document that establishes the rules and principles of an autonomous political entity The Tennessee Supreme Court is the highest Appellate court of the State of Tennessee. A similar rule applies to certain other commissions and boards as well, to prevent them from showing a geographic bias.
The region can also be defined by telephone area codes. A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks Until 2001, West Tennessee, including all of Hardin County, was in area code 901. Area code 901 is an Area code in the US state of Tennessee. Originally it was the area code for the entire state but now is limited to the southwest After a code split, Memphis and its suburbs retained 901, while the rest of West Tennessee received area code 731. Area code 731 is an Area code in the US state of Tennessee. The 731 area code covers West Tennessee, excluding the greater Memphis
West Tennessee is the least populous and smallest in land area of the three Grand Divisions. At the 2000 census it had 1,499,802 inhabitants living in its 21 counties, which have a combined land area of 27,581. 92 km² (10,649. 44 sq mi). Its population was 26. 36 percent of the state's total, and its land area is 25. 84 percent of the state's land area. Its population density was 54. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 376/km² (140. 83/sq mi) at the census.
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History
While the region west of the Tennessee River was technically part of Tennessee at its statehood in 1796, it did not come under definitive U. Year 1796 ( MDCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year S. control until it was obtained in a series of cessions by the Chickasaw Indians in 1818, an acquisition known as the Jackson Purchase after Andrew Jackson, one of the officials involved. Most broadly cession (to cede) is the assignment of Property to another entity The Chickasaw' are Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States (Mississippi Alabama Tennessee Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States Year 1818 ( MDCCCXVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The Jackson Purchase is a region of western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky, bounded by the Tennessee River on the east and the Mississippi River Andrew Jackson (March 15 1767 June 8 1845 was the seventh President of the United States (1829&ndash1837 The purchase also included the westernmost tip of Kentucky as well as part of northern Mississippi. The Commonwealth of Kentucky ( is a state located in the East Central United States of America. Mississippi ( is a state located in the Deep South of the United States Although the vast majority of the purchases lie in Tennessee, the term "Jackson Purchase" is used today to refer solely to the Kentucky portion of the acquisition. The Jackson Purchase is a region in the state of Kentucky bounded by the Mississippi River The term is also slightly misleading. Jackson, a military officer at the time, was one of several federal treaty commissioners. He did not personally negotiate the whole land cession, nor was it done in a single treaty.
Cities and landmarks
The largest city in West Tennessee, by far, and the most populous in the state, is Memphis. Memphis is a City in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the County seat of Shelby County. Outside the greater Memphis area, the region is mostly agricultural. Much of the region geologically lies within the Mississippi embayment. The Mississippi embayment is a physiographic feature in the south-central United States, part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
Among the region's smaller cities (not including Memphis suburbs), some of the more important are Jackson, Dyersburg, Union City, Brownsville, Ripley, Martin, Paris, and Humboldt. Jackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States. Dyersburg is a city in and the County seat of Dyer County, Tennessee, United States, 77 miles (124 km north-northeast of Union City is a city in Obion County, Tennessee, United States. Brownsville is a city in Haywood County, Tennessee, United States. Ripley is a city in Lauderdale County, Tennessee, United States. Martin is a city in Weakley County, Tennessee, United States. Paris is a city in Henry County, Tennessee, 86 miles (138 km west of Nashville, on a fork of the West Sandy River. Humboldt is a city in Gibson and Madison counties in the US state of Tennessee. Of these, only Jackson and Dyersburg have populations in excess of 15,000.
The principal public universities in West Tennessee are the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee at Martin; the main Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee System also maintains a medical branch campus in Memphis. The University of Memphis is an American public Research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee The University of Tennessee at Martin is a campus in the University of Tennessee system The University of Tennessee (also known as UT) sometimes called the University of Tennessee Knoxville ( UT Knoxville, or UTK) is the flagship The University of Tennessee system ( UT system) is one of two Public university systems in the state of Tennessee. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC in Memphis includes the Colleges of Allied Health Sciences Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences Medicine
Demographics
West Tennessee is distinct from Middle and East Tennessee in that African-Americans make up a large percent of the population [1].
Geology
The entire region, especially the area closest to the Mississippi River, lies in a zone of high earthquake risk; this area is at the edge of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth 's crust that creates Seismic waves Earthquakes are recorded with a Seismometer This article is about the seismic zone in southeastern Missouri In 1811 and 1812, three of the largest quakes in U.S. history hit the region when it had little European settlement. Year 1811 ( MDCCCXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1812 ( MDCCCXII) a leap year started on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year By some reports, the quakes briefly reversed the flow of the Mississippi; a lasting legacy of the quakes is Reelfoot Lake, a shallow lake created due to topographic changes caused by that event. Reelfoot Lake is a shallow natural Lake located in the northwest portion of Tennessee and extending into Fulton County Kentucky, United States of A lake (from Latin lacus) is a Terrain feature (or Physical feature) a body of Liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the In Geology, Engineering, and Surveying, subsidence is the motion of a surface (usually the Earth's surface as it shifts downward relative to
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