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Pikeville is an incorporated city and the county seat of Bledsoe County in East Tennessee.

Pikeville was established in 1816 on land purchased from Virginia land speculator Charles Love, became the Bledsoe County seat by 1818 when the seat was moved from Madison, and was incorporated in 1830.

The town is believed to have been named for explorer and soldier General Zebulon Pike, although the exact origin of the name is not documented.

The 2020 census counted 1,824 residents in Pikeville, living in 704 households and 434 families.

Pikeville sits in the northern half of the Sequatchie Valley, a deep and fertile valley cut through the Cumberland Plateau, with Walden Ridge rising to the east and Little Mountain to the west, and the Sequatchie River passing through the eastern part of the city.

U.S. Route 127 runs through Pikeville along Main Street and the courthouse square, with a bypass serving a newer commercial district, and State Route 30 connects the city toward Fall Creek Falls State Park and Dayton.

Although it lies in the eastern part of Tennessee, Pikeville observes Central Time along with the rest of the Sequatchie Valley.

Michigan combustion engineer J. V. Wigle settled in Pikeville and first brought electricity to the town, also bottling Coca-Cola and earning two U.S. patents in 1931; the street named for him, Wiegle Street, is misspelled.

The John Bridgeman House in downtown Pikeville, built in 1815, predates the town itself and is one of its historic landmarks.

The Dr. James A. Ross House, built about 1872 as a home and doctor's office, now houses the Museum of Bledsoe County History.