Clarksville Tennessee
About Clarksville
Clarksville is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee,[7] and the fifth-largest city in the state. The population was 132,929 in the 2010 United States Census.[4] Clarksville is the ninth-fastest growing city in the nation, of cities with a population over 100,000.
It is the principal central city of the Clarksville, TN-KY metropolitan statistical area, which consists of Montgomery and Stewart counties, Tennessee; and Christian and Trigg counties, Kentucky. It is second-fastest-growing Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the nation.[citation needed]
The city was incorporated in 1785 as Tennessee's first incorporated city, and named for General George Rogers Clark, frontier fighter and Revolutionary War hero,[2] and brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.[8]
