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FIPS code. 47-48000[6] Website. City of Memphis. Memphisis a city in the U.S. stateof Tennessee. It is the seatof Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census,[7]Memphis is the second-most populous cityin Tennessee after Nashville.
Memphis metropolitan area. / 35.0239°N 89.8692°W / 35.0239; -89.8692. The Memphis–Clarksdale-Forrest City Combined Statistical Area, TN–MS–AR (CSA) is the commercial and cultural hub of the Mid-South or Ark-Miss-Tenn. The census-defined combined statistical area covers eleven counties in three states, Tennessee, Mississippi, and ...
This table lists the 336 incorporated places in the United States, excluding the U.S. territories, with a population of at least 100,000 as of July 1, 2023, as estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau. Five states have no cities with populations exceeding 100,000. They are: Delaware, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming .
In 1970, the Census Bureau reported Memphis' population as 60.8% white and 38.9% black. [54] Suburbanization was attracting wealthier residents to newer housing outside the city. After the riots and court-ordered busing in 1973 to achieve desegregation of public schools, "about 40,000 of the system's 71,000 white students abandon[ed] the system ...
Shelby County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 929,744. [ 3] It is the largest of the state's 95 counties, both in terms of population and geographic area. Its county seat is Memphis, [ 4] a port on the Mississippi River and the second most populous city in Tennessee.
As of the same year, Davidson County, in which the capital Nashville is located, covers 502 sq mi (1,300 km 2) with a population of 712,334. The population of the state of Tennessee as of the 2023 census estimate was 7,126,489 in an area of 42,169 sq mi (109,217 km 2). [1] [2] [3] The oldest county is Washington County, founded in 1777.
1858 – Memphis Daily Avalanche newspaper begins publication. [ 4] 1860 – Population: 22,623. [ 9][ 2] 1861 – Memphis and Ohio Railroad completed. [ 10] 1862. Tennessee capital relocated to Memphis from Nashville. [ 3] June 6: First Battle of Memphis takes place on Mississippi River near town; Union forces take Memphis.
Demographics of Tennessee. Tennessee is the fifteenth most populous state in the United States with a population of 7,051,339 as of 2022, and has the twentieth-highest population density. [1] The 2020 United States census reported its population to be 6,916,897.