Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Grand Junction, TN

Grand Junction is a small incorporated city in southwestern Tennessee, lying mostly in Hardeman County with a portion extending into neighboring Fayette County.

The town grew up in the 1850s at the junction of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad and the Mississippi Central Railroad, the rail crossing that gave Grand Junction its name.

Grand Junction was incorporated in 1901, having developed as a railroad town with its own newspaper, hotels, and saloons.

The 2020 census counted 338 people in Grand Junction, living in 150 households, with 166 housing units in the city.

The Census Bureau classed all of Grand Junction's residents as rural in 2020, and the median age was 46.5 years.

Grand Junction's population peaked at 560 in the 1940 census before declining to its present size.

During the Civil War the Union Army held Grand Junction for about three years, and General Ulysses S. Grant established a "Contraband Camp" there that sheltered thousands of formerly enslaved people before the Emancipation Proclamation.

An 1878 yellow fever epidemic killed more than half of the town's roughly 150 residents.

Grand Junction calls itself the "Bird Dog Capital of the World" and is home to the National Bird Dog Museum, which also houses the Field Trial Hall of Fame and Wildlife Heritage Center.

The National Field Trial Championships for bird dogs are held at the nearby Ames Plantation.