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| City nickname: "The River City" or "The Bluff City" | |||||
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Location in the state of Tennessee | |||||
| County | Shelby County, Tennessee | ||||
| Area - Total - Water | 763.4 km² (294.8 mi²) 40.0 km² (15.4 mi²) 5.24% | ||||
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898.6/km^2 | ||||
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6 | ||||
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Latitude
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35°7'3" N | ||||
| External link: City of Memphis Online | |||||
Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 650,100 within the city limits, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in. The city is known for blues music and barbecueBarbecue is a method of cooking food with indirect heat and smoke, or the end-result of cooking by this method. It is usually cooked in a covered environment heated by an outdoor open flame of wood, charcoal, natural gas or propane. Restaurant barbecue ma.
It is on Lower Chickasaw Bluff above the Mississippi RiverThis page is about the river in the United States; for other uses, see Mississippi River (disambiguation). The Mississippi River is the second-longest river in the United States; the longest is the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi. Taken t, at the mouth of the Wolf RiverThe Wolf River is a small river of West Tennessee and Mississippi. It rises near Holly Springs, Mississippi and flows northwest into Tennessee, draining a large portion of Memphis and northern and eastern Shelby County before entering the Mississippi Rive.
Interstate highways I-40 and I-55 (along with rail lines) cross the Mississippi at Memphis into the state of ArkansasArkansas [akns] is a southern state in the southern United States. The 2000 census was 2,673,400. postal abbreviation is AR. It was admitted in 1836. USS Arkansas was named in honor of this state. History The early French explorers of the state gave it it.
Memphis was settled by the Chickasaw tribe. The Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, is believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area. The French built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity. The city was founded in 1819 and incorporated as a city in 1826. At the conclusion of the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862 during the American Civil War, Union forces captured Memphis from Confederate control. A yellow fever epidemic in 1870 greatly reduced the population for many years thereafter. In 1897, Memphis' pyramid-shaped pavilion was a conspicuous part of the Tennessee Centennial exposition. From the 1910s to the 1950s, Memphis was a hotbed of machine politics under the direction of E. H. "Boss" Crump.
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