Sevierville ( sə-VEER-vil) is a city in and the county chair of Sevier County, Tennessee, located in eastern Tennessee. The population was 17,889 at the 2020 United States Census.

Native Americans of the Woodland times were in the course of the first human inhabitants of what is now Sevierville. They arrived some time regarding 200 A.D. and lived in villages scattered almost the area known as Forks-of-the-River.

Between 1200 and 1500 A.D., during the Dallas phase of the Mississippian period, a charity of Native Americans time-honored McMahan Mound Site, a relatively large village centered on a platform mound and amongst a palisade just above the confluence of the West Fork and the Little Pigeon River. This mound was nearly 16 feet (5 m) high and 240 feet (73 m) across. An excavation in 1881 unearthed burial sites, arrowheads, a marble pipe, glass beads, pottery, and engraved objects. At the times of this first excavation, the mound was located upon a farm owned by the McMahan family, and was thus firm the name “McMahan Indian Mound.”

By the in the future 18th century, the Cherokee controlled much of the Tennessee side of the Smokies and had expected a series of settlements along the Little Tennessee River. A section of the Great Indian Warpath forked at the mouth of Boyd’s Creek, just north of Sevierville. The main branch crossed the French Broad and continued along Dumplin Creek to the Nolichucky basin in northeastern Tennessee. The new branch, known as the Tuckaleechee and Southeastern Trail, turned south along the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River. This second branch forked another time at modern-day Pigeon Forge, with the main trail turning east en route to Little River and the further branch, known as Indian Gap Trail, crossing the crest of the Smokies to the south and descending into the Oconaluftee area of North Carolina. The various Cherokee trails crossing Sevier County brought the first Euro-American traders and settlers to the area.