Townsend

Townsend is a city in on the western side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is one of the park's main gateways.
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  • Type: Village with 583 residents
  • Description: city in Blount County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United State
  • Also known as: Townsend, Tennessee” and “Townsend, TN
  • Postal code: 37882

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tuckaleechee Caverns.

The is a tourist attraction and the largest and highest rated or cavern by the AAA east of the Mississippi River. The caverns run under the to Townsend, .

Townsend

Latitude
35.6754° or 35° 40′ 31″ north
Longitude
-83.7557° or 83° 45′ 21″ west
Population
583
Elevation
1,070 feet (326 metres)
Open location code
867RM6GV+4P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154155061
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4663081
Wiki­data ID
Q2478843
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Townsend” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: تاونسيند (تينيسي)
  • Arabic: تاونسيند
  • Basque: Townsend
  • Catalan: Townsend
  • Cebuano: Townsend
  • Chechen: Таунсенд
  • Chinese: Townsend
  • Danish: Townsend
  • Dutch: Townsend
  • Egyptian Arabic: تاونسيند
  • French: Townsend
  • German: Townsend
  • Gilaki: ‌تاؤنسند
  • Haitian: Townsend, Tennessee
  • Haitian: Townsend
  • Ido: Townsend, Tennessee
  • Ido: Townsend
  • Irish: Townsend
  • Italian: Townsend
  • Ladin: Townsend
  • Malagasy: Townsend, Tennessee
  • Malagasy: Townsend
  • Min Nan Chinese: Townsend
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Townsend
  • Persian: تاونزند، تنسی
  • Persian: تاونزند
  • Polish: Townsend
  • Portuguese: Townsend
  • Serbian: Таунсенд
  • Serbo-Croatian: Townsend, Tennessee
  • Serbo-Croatian: Townsend
  • South Azerbaijani: تاونزند، تنسی
  • Spanish: Townsend
  • Swedish: Townsend, Tennessee
  • Swedish: Townsend
  • Tatar: Таунсенд (Теннесси)
  • Tatar: Таунсенд
  • Ukrainian: Таунсенд
  • Uzbek: Townsend
  • Volapük: Townsend
  • Welsh: Townsend, Tennessee
  • Welsh: Townsend

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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 “Townsend”. Photo: Bms4880, CC BY 2.5.