Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge is a city in Tennessee. Oak Ridge was created as secret city during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. In Oak Ridge, thousands worked in secrecy to enrich the uranium used in the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 29,300 residents
- Description: city in Tennessee, United States
- Also known as: “Elza”, “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”, “Oak Ridge, TN”, and “Oakridge, Tennessee”
- Postal codes: 37830 and 37831
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include American Museum of Science and Energy and Oak Ridge High School.
American Museum of Science and Energy
Museum
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 3.0.
The American Museum of Science and Energy is a science museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, designed to teach children and adults about energy, especially nuclear power, and to document the role Oak Ridge played in the Manhattan Project.
Oak Ridge High School
School
Oak Ridge High School is the public high school for Oak Ridge, Tennessee, enrolling grades 9 through 12. It was established in 1943 to educate the children of Manhattan Project workers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Robertsville.
Robertsville
Hamlet
Robertsville was a farming community in Anderson County, Tennessee, that was disbanded in 1942 when the area was acquired for the Manhattan Project. Its site is now part of the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Oak Ridge
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Anderson, Eastern Tennessee, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.0104° or 36° 0′ 37″ northLongitude
-84.2696° or 84° 16′ 11″ westPopulation
29,300Elevation
850 feet (259 metres)United Nations Location Code
US OKROpen location code
868Q2P6J+44OpenStreetMap ID
node 154384460OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Oak Ridge” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوك ريدج”
- Asturian: “Oak Ridge”
- Azerbaijani: “Oak Ridge”
- Azerbaijani: “Ok-Ric”
- Basque: “Oak Ridge”
- Belarusian: “Оўк-Рыдж”
- Bulgarian: “Оук Ридж”
- Catalan: “Oak Ridge”
- Cebuano: “Oak Ridge”
- Chechen: “Оук-Ридж”
- Chinese: “Oak Ridge”
- Chinese: “橡树岭”
- Czech: “Oak Ridge”
- Dagbani: “Oak Ridge”
- Danish: “Oak Ridge”
- Dutch: “Oak Ridge”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوك ريدج”
- Esperanto: “Oak Ridge”
- Finnish: “Oak Ridge”
- French: “Oak Ridge”
- French: “Secret City”
- Galician: “Oak Ridge”
- Georgian: “ოუკ-რიჯი”
- German: “Oak Ridge”
- Gilaki: “اؤک ریج (تنسي)”
- Gilaki: “اؤک ریج”
- Haitian: “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
- Haitian: “Oak Ridge”
- Hebrew: “אוק רידג‘”
- Hebrew: “אוק רידג’”
- Hungarian: “Oak Ridge”
- Ido: “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
- Ido: “Oak Ridge”
- Indonesian: “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
- Indonesian: “Oak Ridge”
- Irish: “Oak Ridge”
- Italian: “Oak Ridge”
- Japanese: “オーク・リッジ”
- Japanese: “オークリッジ”
- Korean: “오크리지”
- Ladin: “Oak Ridge”
- Latvian: “Okridža”
- Latvian: “Oukridža”
- Maithili: “ओक रिज”
- Malagasy: “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
- Malagasy: “Oak Ridge”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oak Ridge”
- Nauru: “Oak Ridge”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oak Ridge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oak Ridge”
- Norwegian: “Oak Ridge”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oak Ridge”
- Ossetian: “Ок-Ридж”
- Persian: “اوک ریج”
- Persian: “اووک ریج، تنسی”
- Persian: “اووک ریج”
- Polish: “Oak Ridge”
- Portuguese: “Oak Ridge”
- Pushto: “اواک ريډيج”
- Russian: “Ок-Ридж”
- Russian: “Окридж”
- Russian: “Оук Ридж”
- Russian: “Оук-Ридж”
- Russian: “Оукридж”
- Sardinian: “Oak Ridge”
- Scots: “Oak Ridge”
- Serbian: “Оук Риџ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oak Ridge”
- Slovak: “Oak Ridge”
- Slovenian: “Oak Ridge”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوک ریج، تنسی”
- Spanish: “Oak Ridge (Tennessee)”
- Spanish: “Oak Ridge”
- Swedish: “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
- Swedish: “Oak Ridge”
- Tatar: “Оук-Ридж”
- Turkish: “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
- Turkish: “Oak Ridge”
- Ukrainian: “Ок-Ридж”
- Ukrainian: “Ок-Рідж”
- Ukrainian: “Оук-Ридж”
- Urdu: “اوک رج، ٹینیسی”
- Urdu: “اوک رج”
- Uzbek: “Oak Ridge”
- Vietnamese: “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
- Vietnamese: “Oak Ridge”
- Volapük: “Oak Ridge”
- Welsh: “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
- Welsh: “Oak Ridge”
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