Copperhill is a city in Polk County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 443 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Cleveland Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Downtown Copperhill
Copper mine and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, 1939
The Copper Basin, also known as the Ducktown Basin, is a geological region located primarily in Polk County, Tennessee, that contains deposits of copper ore and covers approximately 60,000 acres. Loca
Copperhill, Tennessee
…was 443 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Cleveland Metropolitan Statistical Area. Copperhill is located in a geological region known as the Copper Basin, which was the site of a major copper mining operation between the 1840s and 1987. According to the original border surveying plan, Copperhill (and…
Copper train in the basin (1939)
Copper ore
Boiler chimney marking the location where copper was first discovered in the Copper Basin in 1843