Difficult is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Smith County, Tennessee
Smith County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 19,904. Smith County is located in the region of the state known as Middle Tennessee. Its cou ...
, in the United States.
It lies just north of
State Route 85, about halfway between
Defeated
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*Defeated, Tennessee
Defeated is an unincorporated community in Smith County, Tennessee ...
to the south and
Kempville to the east. Defeated Creek, a tributary of the
Cumberland River
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, passes through the community.
History
One version of the name's origin holds that when residents applied for a post office, the application was returned because the preferred name was "too difficult".
References
External links
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Unincorporated communities in Smith County, Tennessee
Unincorporated communities in Tennessee
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