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Cookeville, Tennessee

Cookeville is the county seat and largest city of Putnam County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, its population was reported to be 34,842.[10] It is recognized as one of the country's micropolitan areas, or smaller cities which function as significant regional economic hubs. Of the twenty micropolitan areas in Tennessee, Cookeville is the largest. The Cookeville micropolitan area's 2020 Census population was 141,333.[11] The U.S. Census Bureau ranked the Cookeville micropolitan area as the 4th largest-gaining micropolitan area in the country between 2022 and 2023, with a one-year gain of 2,748 and a 2023 population of 148,226.[12] The city is a college town, home to Tennessee Technological University.[2]

"Cookeville" redirects here. For other uses, see Cookeville (disambiguation).

Cookeville, Tennessee

United States

1854[3]

Richard F. Cooke

Laurin Wheaton

James Mills

List of Councilmembers

List

35.95 sq mi (93.10 km2)

35.77 sq mi (92.64 km2)

0.18 sq mi (0.46 km2)

1,089 ft (332 m)

34,842

974.06/sq mi (376.08/km2)

44,207

38501–38503, 38505–38506

2404122[7]

Tennessee Tech

Government[edit]

The city of Cookeville operates under the council-manager form of municipal government. There is an elected five-member city council, including a mayor, vice mayor, and three city council members. The city council establishes policy that is administered by a full-time city manager. All city council members serve four year terms, and the city manager and city clerk are appointed by the city council. The current mayor is Laurin Wheaton, and the four other city council members are Vice Mayor Luke Eldridge, Ali Bagci, Chad Gilbert, and Eric Walker. The current city manager is James Mills and the current city clerk is Darian Coons.[46]


Cookeville is also the county seat of Putnam County. The current county mayor is Randy Porter.[47] As of July 2014, the total population of Putnam County is 74,165.[48]

– head football coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels and former head football coach of the Texas Longhorns

Mack Brown

– older brother of North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Mack Brown, former head football coach of the Rice Owls, Vanderbilt Commodores, UAB Blazers, and Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles

Watson Brown

– former head football coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers, Texas Tech Red Raiders, and South Carolina Gamecocks

Jim Carlen

– four-time individual and four-time team champion of the CrossFit Games

Rich Froning Jr.

– "Deputy Junior" from the TV show Reno 911!

Robert Ben Garant

– former PGA Tour player, professional golfer

Bobby Greenwood

– winner of the 17th season of The Voice

Jake Hoot

– makeup artist, beauty blogger, and founder of cosmetics line Huda Beauty

Huda Kattan

– one-time property assessor and convicted murderer of State Senator Tommy Burks in 1998

Byron (Low Tax) Looper

– a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman, was the former co-owner of the Herald Citizen

Harold E. Martin

– head football coach of the University of Florida Gators and former head football coach of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Billy Napier

– children's musician and host of The Zinghoppers children's TV show that has been broadcast on Fox, NBC and PBS stations.

Jack Norton

– was an American scholar and feminist, known for her book Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism. She was director of Women's and Gender Studies and associate professor of English at the College of Charleston.

Alison Piepmeier

basketballer, former NBA player, last played with the Mavericks born in Cookeville, but grew up in Roanoke, Virginia.

J. J. Redick

– a former Old Order Amish bishop, who founded of the "Christian Communities", of which the center was Cookeville.

Elmo Stoll

– professional American football player for the Cincinnati Bengals and San Francisco 49ers, born in Cookeville, but moved away from town when he was two[59]

Trent Taylor

– former professional football player for the Minnesota Vikings

Lonnie Warwick

– former director of the National Security Agency

William Eldridge Odom

Friends of the Cookeville History Museum (2008). . Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738553870.

Cookeville and Putnam County

University of Tennessee Bureau of Public Administration (1948). A Study of the Organization of the Government of Cookeville, Tennessee. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press.

Holloway, Sarah (2011). . Nightengale Press. ISBN 9781933449944.

Cookeville Voices

Keith, Jeanette (1995). . University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807845264.

Country People in the New South: Tennessee's Upper Cumberland

Anderson, Joseph (1972). . Cookeville, Tennessee: Tennessee Technological University Press.

Applications of an Urban Model to Cookeville, Tennessee

Tennessee State Planning Commission, Middle Tennessee Office (1964). . Nashville, Tennessee.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

The Economy and People of Cookeville and Putnam County

Official website

Convention and Visitors Bureau