Alamo, TN

Alamo is a Crockett County town of 2,336 people at the 2020 census, near the center of West Tennessee. It began as Cageville, a trading post laid out in 1846 by Isaac M. Johnson and Lycurgus Cage; Johnson became the first postmaster. When Crockett County formed, the town took the name Alamo in honor of Davy Crockett and became the county seat. It incorporated in 1911.

State Routes 54, 221, and 88 meet around town, with U.S. 412 passing just west and Jackson, Dyersburg, Memphis, and Nashville all part of the longer travel map. The courthouse square remains the civic center, surrounded by local businesses and churches. Alamo also has its own elementary school, a city park with tennis courts and a ballfield, and the nearby Crockett Golf & Country Club. It is a county-seat town with a strong agricultural backdrop, where Cageville's old trading-post roots still sit underneath the Davy Crockett name. County business, school calendars, farm work, and weekend ball games set the town's everyday rhythm.