Local coverage
Project conversations across Knox County and the East Tennessee ridge-and-valley region.
Whether coverage reaches your address depends on provider availability at the time. Each community below has notes on local housing stock and terrain worth knowing.
Farragut
Originally Campbell's Station, a fort and stagecoach stop on the frontier road west of Knoxville, its older homes sit over vented crawl spaces that take humid valley air all summer.
Local planning notes →Maryville
Laid out in 1795 as the seat of the new Blount County, its historic housing has shallow crawl spaces where ground moisture reaches framing directly.
Local planning notes →Powell
Settled in 1789, two years before Knoxville itself, Powell's older properties sit where limestone shelves trap water beneath the floor.
Local planning notes →Fountain City
Grown up around Fort Adair, a stockade built about 1791, the neighborhood's mature trees keep crawl spaces shaded and slow to dry through the season.
Local planning notes →Halls
Developed at the crossroads of Emory Road and Maynardville Highway, its mid-century houses were built with minimal vapor control below the floor.
Local planning notes →Karns
Once a farming community northwest of Knoxville, the ground slopes from Melton Hill Lake upward, so subfloor water arrives from uphill rather than from rain.
Local planning notes →Seymour
Begun as Newell's Station, a 1783 frontier outpost on Boyd's Creek, its creek-adjacent lots keep the water table close beneath the crawl space.
Local planning notes →Bearden
Named for Marcus De Lafayette Bearden, later Knox County sheriff and Knoxville mayor, its established homes have crawl spaces altered repeatedly by past mechanical work.
Local planning notes →