Townsend
Townsend is a city in Tennessee on the western side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is one of the park's main gateways.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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.
Tuckaleechee Caverns
Photo: Bigmacthealmanac, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tuckaleechee Caverns is a tourist attraction and the largest and highest rated cave or cavern by the AAA east of the Mississippi River. The caverns run under the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Townsend, Tennessee.
Townsend
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Blount, Eastern Tennessee, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.6754° or 35° 40′ 31″ northLongitude
-83.7557° or 83° 45′ 21″ westPopulation
583Elevation
1,070 feet (326 metres)Open location code
867RM6GV+4POpenStreetMap ID
node 154155061OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4663081Wikidata ID
Q2478843
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Satellite Map
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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.