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Population: 6,930 Located in Cumberland County
Crossville, Tennessee
Cumberland County is a family-oriented, affordable rural area with an abundance of natural beauty and resources that encourages planned economic development, 21st-century educational opportunities, a high-quality of life, and a diversity of ideas brought together by forward-thinking leadership that is learning from the past while planning for the future and is continuously striving to make Cumberland County a better place to live, worship, work, and play.
Free enterprise and entrepreneurship is alive and well. Business sectors include transportation, technology and research, and industry. Quality employers are continually attracted. Major employers include Aviagen North America, Benco Sales, Crossville Porcelain Stone/USA (national headquarters), Crossville Rubber Products, DANA Corporation, Elixir Industries, Flower's Snack of Tennessee, Franklin Industrial Minerals, Hickory Specialties, Inc., Manchester Tank, MasterBrand, Monticello Canning Company, Nakano Foods, Rockwell Automation and SKF USA. In 1998, the per capita personal income was $19,512.
Crossville has a tradition of educational excellence with dedicated faculty, and community support. Students consistently score near the top on all statewide tests.
In Crossville, there are many recreational opportunities. We offer championship tennis courts, indoor and outdoor swimming, sailing and fishing on mirror-clear lakes, white-water rafting, camping, horseback riding and eleven professionally designed golf courses. There are also, quiet, secluded nature trails for hiking, bird watching and identifying wildlife, plants and flowers. For hunters, the Catoosa Wildlife Management Preserve is twenty miles north. There are deer, turkey, boar and other wildlife to choose from. Within Cumberland County, there are several parks and natural areas, including Cumberland Mountain State Park, Ozone Falls State Natural Area, Mount Roosevelt State Forest, Meadow Park Lake, Crossville Recreation Park, and Obed City-County Park.
With a dozen golf courses, Crossville is "The GOLF Capital of Tennessee!" The area is home to Tennessee's famous vacation and retirement resort, Fairfield Glade, which boasts 90 holes of golf in just their area alone; home to the first site of Jack Nicklaus' Bear Trace at Cumberland Mountain State Park; home to Tennessee's highest elevation golf course at Renegade Mountain; and home to a total of eleven championship golf courses. In all, there are over 200 holes atop the Cumberland Plateau.
Many designers have incorporated the rolling hills, mountain streams and rock formations into their course layouts. Designers, such as Jack Nicklaus, Ron Garl, Joe Lee, and area favorite, Robert Renaud, have seen the natural terrain and scenic beauty in the Crossville area as an asset of which to take advantage.
Annual Average Temperature 54°
Monthly Average High Temperature 82° July
Monthly Average Low Temperature 21° January
Annual Average Precipitation 52"
Annual Average Snowfall 12"
Elevation 1,980
Crossville is a small safe community with many of the residential areas near schools, shopping, churches and health care facilities. Residents demonstrate hospitality and friendliness.
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