Lenoir City is a suburban city in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 10,117 at the 2020 Census. It is included in the Knoxville metropolitan Place in the state’s eastern region, along the Tennessee River southwest of Knoxville.

Native Americans were breathing in the Lenoir City area for thousands of years in the past the introduction of the first European settlers. On Bussell Island, which lies across the Tennessee River to the south, archaeologists have discovered evidence of habitation dating to as at the forefront as the Archaic Period (8000–1000 B.C.). The island is furthermore believed to have been the location of “Coste”, a village visited by Spanish buccaneer Hernando de Soto in 1540.

The historic Cherokee called the Lenoir City area Wa’ginsi, and believed it to be the home of a large serpent that brought bad luck to anyone who proverb it. By the in front 19th century, an to the fore East Tennessee pioneer, Judge David Campbell, had laid claim to portion of what is now Lenoir City, where he built a log cabin and a gristmill.

In the before 19th century, the confess of North Carolina approved General William Lenoir a 5,000-acre (2,000 ha) tract of land—which included what developed as Lenoir City—as payment for his services in the American Revolutionary War. David Campbell and another ahead of time settler, Alexander Outlaw, filed a case next to Lenoir in court, arguing they had already laid affirmation to parts of the Lenoir tract.