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There were seven active wildfires and over 20 contained fires in East Tennessee on Nov. 16, according to the Tennessee Division of Forestry. There is some relief on the way, though.
Over the weekend, fire officials in North Carolina started to get a handle on the Black Bear Fire within the Pisgah National Forest, right off of Interstate 40 near the Tennessee state line. The ...
They also have been fighting the 475-acre Tioga fire, which is estimated as being 80% contained. The wildfire was first reported just after 6 p.m. Saturday on the ridge overlooking Rocky Top near ...
The 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, also known as the Gatlinburg wildfires, [ 1] were a complex of wildfires which began in late November 2016. Some of the towns most impacted were Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, both near Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The fires claimed at least 14 lives, [ 5][ 6] injured 190, [ 7] and is one of the ...
The Upper Tennessee Valley, looking east from the edge of the Cumberland Plateau near Rockwood, Tennessee. The Tennessee Valley begins in the upper head water portions of the Holston River, the Watauga River, and the Doe River in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, as well as east of Asheville, North Carolina, with the headwaters of the French Broad and Pigeon rivers, all of which join ...
The Agricultural Adjustment Act ( AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land. The money for these subsidies was generated through an exclusive tax on companies ...
That fire was 100% contained by mid-morning, according to a Facebook post from the Townsend Area Volunteer Fire Department. Tennessee Forestry took over the scene at 8 p.m. and monitored the fire ...
47-55120 [ 8] Website. www .oakridgetn .gov. Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 31,402 at the 2020 census. [ 9] It is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Area.