Jellico, TN

Jellico is a Campbell County city on the Kentucky line, set in the Cumberland Mountains around Elk Creek and Indian Mountain. The name is tied to the surrounding mountain country and Jellico Creek, while the city's older story is coal and rail: Campbell County's railroad development helped turn mountain settlements toward mining and lumber. Indian Mountain State Park sits in the valley beside town, on land the city acquired in the late 1960s. Jellico is an East Tennessee border town where a creek name, a coal field, and a state park share the same mountain frame.