Surgoinsville is a town in Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States. The 2020 census showed a population of 1,882, an increase over the figure of 1,801 tabulated in 2010. It is part of the Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol metropolitan area, which is a component of the Tri-Cities region.
The Phipps Bend Nuclear Plant is nearby.
History
Surgoinsville was incorporated in 1815, and was named for its founder, Major James Surguine, who was a French Huguenot.
Geography
Surgoinsville is located just northeast of the geographic center of Hawkins County, which is on the north side of the Holston River. U.S. Route 11W, a four-lane highway, passes through the northern part of the town, leading northeast to Kingsport and southwest to Rogersville, the Hawkins County seat. Tennessee State Route 346 is Surgoinville's Main Street that forms a business loop with US 11W.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Surgoinsville has a total area of , of which are land and , or 0.63%, are water.
2020 census
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Surgoinsville racial composition
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| White (non-Hispanic)
| 1,783
| 94.74%
|-
!scope="row"| Black or African American (non-Hispanic)
| 3
| 0.16%
|-
!scope="row"| Native American
| 3
| 0.16%
|-
!scope="row"| Asian
| 8
| 0.43%
|-
!scope="row"| Other/Mixed
| 53
| 2.82%
|-
!scope="row"| Hispanic or Latino
| 32
| 1.7%
|}
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,882 people, 808 households, and 617 families residing in the town.
2000 census
As of the census
Education
Two schools are located in Surgoinsville:
- Surgoinsville Elementary School
- Surgoinsville Middle School
Students from Surgoinsville Elementary and Middle Schools attend Volunteer High School in nearby Church Hill.
A campus of Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology is located in the Phipps Bend Industrial Park in the eastern portion of the city.
Government
Although chartered in 1815, as indicated in the Tennessee Blue Book, the town for a time had no local government. Interested citizens in the early decades of the 20th century restarted the municipality, which is governed by a board of mayor and aldermen.
Infrastructure
Surgoinsville throughout history until the mid-2010s was among few of incorporated municipalities in Tennessee without access to public sewer. In 2014, construction work began on a dollar sewage treatment system project in Surgoinsville, citing the lack of a system causing environmental and health concerns, and preventing further economic development. The overall project was completed in 2016.
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References
External links
- Town of Surgoinsville official site