Williston, TN

Williston is a small Fayette County city where Tennessee Routes 76 and 193 meet in the rolling country east of Memphis. Route 76 runs north toward Somerville and south toward Moscow, while Route 193 heads west toward Macon and the Memphis outer beltway. The road pattern gives Williston a clear place on the county map: a compact town at the junction of routes linking farms, villages, and the larger Memphis edge. Its population was 349 in 2020, keeping the city's scale close to its rural setting.

Williston's position also places it within the history of Fayette County, a landscape of old roads, small settlements, and agricultural communities. The city's municipal code covers local government, utilities, housing, and public services, while the surrounding routes carry most regional movement. Somerville is the county seat six miles north, and Moscow lies seven miles south. Williston is the kind of place where the road signs do much of the orientation: north to the county courthouse, south to Moscow, and west toward the wider Memphis orbit.