Mount Carmel is a city in Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,429, an growth of 634 previously the 2000 census. It is ration of the Kingsport–Bristol (TN)–Bristol (VA) Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the “Tri-Cities” region.

Mount Carmel is in Hawkins County, which was past called Spencer county, and was a share of the State of Franklin. The State of Franklin comprised eight counties in western North Carolina in the late 1700s. Governed by John Sevier, it operated as an independent state for four years previously it ultimately rejoined North Carolina.

Mount Carmel considering garnered national attention in the mid-2000s because of a CBS News tab stating the town’s geography is situated upon only one side of the main highway through the area. Since then, the city has secured property upon the new side of the road and has built a cemetery.

Since the 1980s, the community has faced economic hard times due to political turmoil in its admin operations, and the outsourcing of its retail and municipal facilities to adjacent to Church Hill and Kingsport. In 2020, the city would begin discussions of connecting to either of the two cities’ sewer systems when the Mount Carmel sewer tree-plant going insolvent. Calls for Mount Carmel to fuse into Kingsport or Church Hill have been raised since 2021 because of the financial instability.