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Johnson City is a city in Northeast Tennessee that lies mostly in Washington County but also extends into Carter and Sullivan counties.

The city began in 1856 as “Johnson's Depot,” a railroad station established by Henry Johnson, and it was incorporated in 1869.

During the Civil War the community was briefly renamed Haynesville before taking back the name Johnson City.

The 2020 census counted 71,046 residents in Johnson City, making it Tennessee's eighth most populous city, up from 63,152 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 29,957 households and 32,801 housing units in the city, and the median age was 36.0 years.

Johnson City is the home of East Tennessee State University, which was authorized in 1911 as East Tennessee State Normal School and is now the largest university in Northeast Tennessee.

The Mountain Home campus, created by Congress in 1901 as a branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and completed in 1903 on about 450 acres, is now the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center.

Johnson City is the headquarters of Ballad Health, the largest health system serving the surrounding Appalachian Highlands region.

William Bean, traditionally regarded as Tennessee's first white settler, built a cabin on Boone's Creek near present-day Johnson City in 1769.

Johnson City earned the nickname “Little Chicago” in the 1920s for its role as an Appalachian bootlegging center during Prohibition.