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Country
  
United States

County
  
Chester

ZIP code
  
38347

Elevation
  
141 m

Local time
  
Friday 8:47 PM

State
  
Tennessee

Time zone
  
Central (CST) (UTC-6)

GNIS feature ID
  
1289172

Area code
  
Area code 731

Jacks Creek, Tennessee

Weather
  
19°C, Wind SW at 14 km/h, 72% Humidity

Jacks Creek' (or Jack's Creek) is an unincorporated community in Chester County, Tennessee, United States.

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Map of Jacks Creek, TN 38340, USA

Geography

The community is situated on Highway 100E and Highway 22A. It has an elevation of 515 ft. Its zip code is 38347.

History

The area was settled in the 1820s. There are multiple legends about the source of the name of the creek running though the community which bears its name. They agree only in that the "Jack" after whom it was named was a young African-American slave boy, who either drowned in the creek, discovered the excellence of its water, or was captured by Indians on its banks.

John Marshall Stone made his home here before moving in 1855 to Mississippi, where he would eventually become governor of that state. There were two minor incidents near Jacks Creek during the Civil War: a skirmish one mile north of town, on September 12, 1863; and a one-day battle one mile south of town involving a Confederate unit under Nathan Bedford Forrest and United States Army troops out of Corinth, Mississippi, on December 23, 1863.

In 1937 the community became the site of the Jack's Creek Intermediate Landing Field, an airport on the flight line between Nashville and Memphis that was designated as an emergency landing field. At one time it was the second largest landing field in the United States, with two runways, a beacon light and a radio control tower. During World War II the airfield was used by the U.S. Army Air Force as a practice site.

Today

Jacks Creek is home to the Jacks Creek church of Christ and Jacks Creek Elementary School. Jacks Creek also has its own Post Office as well as several Barbque Pits and restaurants.

Notable people

  • Stephen L. Ross, farmer who served in the Tennessee General Assembly, lived here.
  • References

    Jacks Creek, Tennessee Wikipedia