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Maynardville is an incorporated city and the county seat of Union County in East Tennessee, and it carries the nickname "The Cradle of Country Music."

The community began around 1850 as a small settlement called Liberty, which was chosen as the county seat because it stood nearest the center of the newly proposed Union County.

When Knox County challenged Union County's creation in court, supporters hired Knoxville attorney Horace Maynard to defend the new county; after he won, Liberty was renamed Maynardville in his honor, and Maynard later became U.S. Postmaster General.

Maynardville was incorporated in 1870, and it still uses the council-manager form of government adopted at its incorporation.

The 2020 census counted 2,456 residents in Maynardville, living in 925 households and 528 families, and the Census Bureau classified all of its residents as rural.

Country music legend Roy Acuff, the "King of Country Music" and a Grand Ole Opry fixture, was born in Maynardville in 1903, and country singer Carl Smith also came from Maynardville.

In the early to mid-20th century, State Route 33 through Maynardville was part of the infamous Thunder Road, a route bootleggers used to run moonshine, later immortalized in the 1958 film and song "Thunder Road."

Maynardville sits in Raccoon Valley between Copper Ridge to the south and Hinds Ridge to the north, about 5 miles south of Norris Lake on the Clinch River.

The city lies about 15 miles northeast of Knoxville on State Route 33, the Maynardville Highway, and is included in the Knoxville metropolitan area, with many residents commuting out of Union County for work.

In the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Brad Pitt's character Lt. Aldo Raine is identified as a moonshiner from Maynardville.