Parrottsville, Tennessee
Parrottsville is a town in Cocke County, Tennessee, Cocke County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 263 at the 2010 census. Geography Parrottsville is located in northeastern Cocke County at (36.009391, -83.091186) U.S. Route 321, a four-lane highway, passes south of the town, leading southwest to Newport, Tennessee, Newport, the county seat, and northeast to Greeneville, Tennessee, Greeneville. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 217 people, 117 households, and 51 families residing in the town. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 207 people, 79 households, and 60 families residing in the town. The population density was 572.5 people per square mile (222.0/km2). There were 85 housing units at an average density of 235.1 per square mile (91.2/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 94.20% White (U.S. Census), White, 4.35% ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, ...
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