Morristown is a city in and the county seat of Hamblen County, Tennessee, United States. Morristown in addition to extends into Jefferson County upon the western and southern ends. The city’s population was recorded to be 30,431 at the 2020 United States census. It is the principal city of the Morristown Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses everything of Grainger, Hamblen, and Jefferson counties. The Morristown metropolitan area is also portion of the Knoxville-Morristown-Sevierville Combined Statistical Area.

Established in 1855, Morristown developed into a well-off community due to its strategic location at the intersection of two major stagecoach routes. It would experience turmoil from battles in its immediate Place and its amend of control under Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War. Following the war, Morristown furthered its industrial accumulation with companies expanding rail access, making it a prominent logistics hub into the 20th century. Since the mid-20th century, the city has customary itself as the regional economic hub and metropolis of the Lakeway Area region following efforts to expand the industrial sector of the city’s economy into a present with exceeding 100 companies, providing a workforce of an estimated 30,000 people. In 2019, the city was reported to have a daytime population of 118,600, including those commuting to the city from surrounding counties and communities.

The first European settler was Gideon Morris, a farmer who arrived from the Watauga Settlement, a harmony that was leased to settlers from the inhabiting Cherokee tribes. Morris, along behind his siblings, petitioned to have the Watauga Settlement annexed in the State of North Carolina. After the execution of the petition, the agreement was named Morristown, and home grants containing Hamblen and Jefferson counties were assigned to Morris and his brothers Daniel and Absalom in 1787 by North Carolina officials.

Pioneer and folk-hero David Crockett lived in present-day Morristown behind his father, John Crockett, and customary a tavern in 1794. The current-day Crockett Tavern Museum sits at the approximate location of the former tavern and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.