Boyds Creek, Tennessee

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Boyds Creek is an unincorporated community in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. It is named for a small southward-flowing tributary of the French Broad River of the same name, which itself derives its name from a Virginian trader killed by a band of Cherokee Indians whose body was thrown into the stream. The creek was the site of a 1780 battle (The Battle of Boyd's Creek) between white settlers and Cherokee angry at their encroachment onto their hunting territory[1].

[edit] Geography

The community has a mean elevation of 899 feet (274 metres)[2].

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Coordinates: 35°55′24″N, 83°39′33″W