Sewanee
Sewanee is a small town in south-central Tennessee. It is known primarily for its natural scenery and association with the University of the South. There are roughly 2,500 residents, of whom about 1,500 are students at the University.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,310 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Franklin County, Tennessee
- Also known as: “Sewanee, Tennessee”, “Sewanee, TN”, “University”, and “University Place”
- Postal codes: 37375 and 37383
Places of Interest
Highlights include Franklin County Airport and St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School.
Franklin County Airport
Aerodrome
Franklin County Airport is a public airport located one mile east of the central business district of Sewanee, a census-designated place in Franklin County, Tennessee, United States.
St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School
School
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School is a private, coeducational, Episcopal, boarding and day college preparatory school serving 250 students in grades six through twelve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Midway.
Midway
Hamlet
Midway, also known as "Tickbush", is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Tennessee. Midway is 3.25 miles southwest of Monteagle. Midway is situated 2 miles east of Sewanee.
Sewanee
Latitude
35.2031° or 35° 12′ 11″ northLongitude
-85.9211° or 85° 55′ 16″ westPopulation
2,310Elevation
1,929 feet (588 metres)IATA airport code
UOSUnited Nations Location Code
US UOSOpen location code
867P633H+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 153529212OpenStreetMap feature
natural=treeOpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Sewanee” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سواني”
- Basque: “Sewanee”
- Catalan: “Sewanee”
- Cebuano: “Sewanee”
- Chechen: “Сьюани”
- Chinese: “Sewanee”
- Danish: “Sewanee”
- Dutch: “Sewanee”
- French: “Sewanee”
- German: “Sewanee”
- Gilaki: “سوانی (تنسي)”
- Gilaki: “سوانی”
- Irish: “Sewanee”
- Italian: “Sewanee”
- Japanese: “スワニー”
- Ladin: “Sewanee”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sewanee”
- Persian: “سوان، تنسی”
- Persian: “سوان”
- Polish: “Sewanee”
- Portuguese: “Sewanee”
- Russian: “Севони”
- Serbian: “Sewanee, Tennessee”
- Serbian: “Sewanee”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sewanee, Tennessee”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sewanee”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیوئین، تنسی”
- Spanish: “Sewanee”
- Swedish: “Sewanee”
- Tatar: “Сьюани”
- Ukrainian: “Сьюані”
- Volapük: “Sewanee”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sewanee”. Photo: David Van Horn, CC BY 2.0.