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Luttrell is an incorporated city in Union County, Tennessee, part of the Knoxville metropolitan statistical area, with a mayor-council form of government.

Luttrell was originally known as Cedar Ford and was renamed Luttrell in 1890.

In the 19th century, Cedar Ford had a lime kiln and a marble quarry and counted 808 residents in the 1870 census.

The Powell Valley Railroad, now part of Norfolk Southern, was built through the community in 1887, making it a shipping center.

Luttrell became an incorporated municipality in 1925.

The 2020 census counted 1,017 people in Luttrell, down from 1,074 in 2010.

The 2020 census recorded 366 households and 231 families in Luttrell.

Luttrell lies in a valley between Copper Ridge to the north and Clinch Mountain to the south in the Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley region, drained by Flat Creek, a tributary of the Holston River, and the city of Plainview borders it to the southwest.

Tennessee State Routes 131 and 61 intersect in Luttrell.

Country guitarist Chet Atkins, a Country Music Hall of Famer credited with developing the Nashville Sound and a winner of 14 Grammy Awards, was born in Luttrell on June 20, 1924, and country star Kenny Chesney also hails from Luttrell.