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Fowlkes is an unincorporated community in Dyer County, Tennessee, United States.[2]

History

Originally founded as Fowlkes Station in 1882 by W.P. Fowlkes, the following year the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad was completed in Dyer County. The line for this railroad passed through the community of Fowlkes. By 1887, the community supported a school, a Methodist church, and multiple grist mills and cotton gins.[5][6]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
2020882
U.S. Decennial Census[7]

Notes

  1. ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Fowlkes, Tennessee". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ^ "Census Population API". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  4. ^ "Fowlkes TN ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2023. Retrieved February 17, 2023.
  5. ^ Goodspeed's History of Tennessee. Nashville, TN: The Goodspeed Publishing Co. 1887. p. 850.
  6. ^ "Goodspeed History - Dyer County". tn-roots.com. Retrieved July 1, 2024.
  7. ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.


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