Pocahontas

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Pocahontas

Total population

391

Median home value

$116,700

16.1%

Bachelor's+

Median income

$0

Elevation394 m

Weather57°F · Mostly Clear

Coordinates35.05°, -88.80°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Pocahontas is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hardeman and McNairy counties, Tennessee, United States. It is eighty-three miles southeast of Memphis.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Demographics & economy

Source: US Census Bureau — American Community Survey, 5-year estimates.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Current forecast

Forecast for Pocahontas, TN from NOAA NWS API.

Notable people from here

E

Estelle Axton

American music industry professional and co-founder of Stax Records

Bailey Howell

American basketball player (born 1937)

J

Jim Stewart

American record producer and executive (1930–2022)

C

Chelsey Perry

American basketball player (born 1999)

G

Gideon Hicks Baskette

American journalist (1845-1927)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Tennessee

• Essary Springs
  3 mi away · pop. 154
• Chewalla
  9.3 mi away
• Selmer
  14.2 mi away · pop. 4,488
• Saulsbury
  16.2 mi away
• Bolivar
  18.7 mi away · pop. 5,144
• Hickory Valley
  19.6 mi away · pop. 126
• Silerton
  19.9 mi away
• Michie
  21.3 mi away · pop. 558
• Grand Junction
  21.9 mi away
• Stantonville
  22.2 mi away
• Toone
  22.6 mi away · pop. 289
• Shiloh
  25 mi away

Browse all places in Tennessee →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Pocahontas

The Wild Rose of Cherokee, or, Nancy Ward, "The Pocahontas of the West"

E. Sterling King · 1895

Cooper, McKemy, Ferrell/Farrell, Wooddell, Gothard, Wilson, & Patton families of Augusta & Rockbridge counties, Virginia, York, & Adams counties, Pennsylvania, Blount, Knox, & Roane counties, Tennessee, Pocahontas, Gilmer, & Ritchie counties, West Virginia, Wayne County, Kentucky, Virgo & Sullivan counties, Indiana, York County, South Carolina

Homer C. Cooper · 1969

A heritage of Hope

Charles A. Raper · 2008

Cooper, McKemy, Ferrell/Farrell, Wooddell, Gothard, Wilson, & Patton families

Homer C. Cooper · 1969

Redneck woman

Gretchen Wilson · 2006

U.S. Steel and Gary, West Virginia

Ronald Garay · 2011

The art of anthropology/the anthropology of art

Brandon D. Lundy · 2013

Violence in American drama

Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz · 2011

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