BigDaddyData.Com: Tennessee Nashville

    Nashville, city in north central Tennessee and capital of the state. Nashville shares the same boundaries with Davidson County; the two merged in 1963. Nashville is known as "Music City, USA" because it is the home of the recording industry for country-and-western music. Nashville is also the Middle South's center of government, education, banking, insurance, and health services. In the city is the headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant church group, and Nashville has a printing industry specialized in publishing Bibles.

    The city lies in the Nashville Basin, a gently rolling and low-lying area surrounded by the western and eastern Highland Rim. The Cumberland Mountains rise to the east. Nashville is located on the Cumberland River, which forms long loops as it flows through the basin. The city's mean elevation is 134 m (440 ft). Nashville's climate is moderate and the city enjoys four distinct seasons. The average high temperature in January is 8° C (46° F) and the average low is -3° C (27° F); the average high in July is 32° C (90° F) and the average low is 21° C (69° F). The city annually receives 1201 mm (47.3 in) in precipitation, with more precipitation in early winter and in the spring than in other times of the year.

    Nashville was founded in 1779 during the American Revolution (1775-1783) and named in honor of Brigadier General Francis Nash, mortally wounded two years earlier in the Battle of Germantown.