Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Clifton, TN

Clifton is an incorporated city in Wayne County, Tennessee, on the Tennessee River near the state's south-central border with Alabama.

Clifton developed as a river port along the Tennessee River in the 19th century, and its Water Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, survives from that port era.

The 2020 census counted 2,651 people in Clifton.

The 2020 census recorded only 344 households and 425 housing units in Clifton — a skew explained by the large inmate population counted at the prison in the city, which makes Clifton's population heavily male.

Clifton is the site of the South Central Correctional Facility, a privately run medium-security state prison with capacity for about 1,700 adult male offenders.

The city operates the T. S. Stribling Museum in honor of its most famous resident, novelist T. S. Stribling, whose novel The Store won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1933 as the second book of his Vaiden trilogy; the Stribling house stands in the Water Street Historic District.

Local students attend Frank Hughes School, and Columbia State Community College also has a presence in Clifton.

Clifton's radio station is WLVS-FM 106.5, known as "Sunny 106.5," broadcasting an adult contemporary format.

Railroad executive and historian Robert Selph Henry was a notable Clifton resident.

U.S. Route 641 and State Routes 128 and 228 serve Clifton, which also has the Hassell-Carroll Field Airport.