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Eva, Tennessee

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Country
  
United States

County
  
Benton

ZIP code
  
38333

Elevation
  
127 m

Population
  
293 (2010)

State
  
Tennessee

Time zone
  
Central (CST) (UTC-6)

Area code(s)
  
731

Area
  
5.26 km²

Local time
  
Thursday 7:40 PM

Eva, Tennessee

Weather
  
21°C, Wind S at 14 km/h, 51% Humidity

Eva is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Benton County, Tennessee, United States, on the western shore of the Kentucky Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River. It is the site of Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. As of the 2010 census, its population was 293. The ZIP Code Tabulation Area for the ZIP code (38333) that serves Eva had a population of 574 as of the 2000 U.S. Census, when Eva was not yet a CDP. Eva is centered on the junction of State Route 191, which connects the community to Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park to the north and the town of Camden to the south, and Eva Beach Road, which stretches from the center of the community to its beach along Kentucky Lake.

Map of Eva, TN 38333, USA

According to local lore, Eva was named after a friend of the daughter of Benton County land speculator A.W. Lucas. In 1913, Lucas donated land for a church and school that became the core of the community.

In 1940, before the Tennessee River was dammed to form Kentucky Lake, University of Tennessee archaeologists excavated a rich archaeological site at Eva, containing the remains of a series of prehistoric Native American encampments dating from the Archaic Period. The earliest remains at the site, with a radiocarbon date of 5200 B.C., contained artifacts from a group of hunting and gathering people who were named the Eva culture after the site, which is now submerged by the reservoir.

References

Eva, Tennessee Wikipedia


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