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This website was created for the residents of Dickson, located near Nashville, Tennessee to provide local weather data and forecasts. The weather station and website is privately owned and operated and the data should not be used for official weather information.
About This City
The town of Dickson was incorporated again in 1899. Dickson was officially chartered by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1925. The population listed in the 1900 Census was 1,363.
Dickson owes its beginning and early success to the railroad. There was a large switchyard in the area of West End Avenue. Passenger trains stopped daily at the depot still standing across from the Clement Railroad Hotel Museum, which was operated as the Halbrook Hotel and is the birthplace of Gov. Frank G. Clement.
In addition to the rail connecting Nashville and the Tennessee River, the Cumberland Furnace iron industry kept two branch lines busy between Dickson and the Cumberland River in Clarksville.
By the 1940 Census, Dickson had grown to 3,504 residents. But the iron industry in the northern part of the county began to fade away and America's growing love with automobiles began decreasing the need for trains. Eventually, the iron operations ceased and the tracks heading north were abandoned and removed in the mid-1900s. That slowed Dickson's growth and the town reported a 4.5% decrease in population to 3,384 people in 1950.
Unlike other towns that saw their growth halted by decreased railroad use, Dickson benefited from the State of Tennessee's first east-west highway. In the early 1910s, Tennessee began planning a highway that would connect existing roads and add new portions to extend from Bristol to Memphis as State Route 1 and become part of U.S. Highway 70, which reached from the Atlantic in North Carolina to the Pacific in California.
In 1917, Dickson residents raised $760 to survey a portion of the new road through the town and College Street became a part of the "Broadway of America." While the early Dickson growth had centered along the railroad, College Street and the traffic of a coast-to-coast highway began to attract businesses and downtown grew to the north.
During the 1950s, the U.S. government launched the construction of a series of interstates that would accommodate the country's quickly growing number of vehicles. With a little influence from Gov. Clement, Interstate 40 was constructed through the southern part of Dickson County just four miles south of Dickson, and Highway 46 became a new lifeline. By the 1970s, commercial growth had begun to spread toward the interstate, which opened the City of Dickson to a new generation of travelers. Restaurants and hotels cropped up at the interchange and by the 1990s the City of Dickson had incorporated past I-40.
The proximity to the interstate proved attractive to industries and in the early 1980s, Dickson saw considerable growth in its industrial park, including attracting industries based in Canada, Japan, France, Belgium, and Italy. The completion of I-840 from Dickson County to Wilson County creates a southern loop around Nashville that connects I-65 and I-24 with I-40.
Dickson saw its population shoot up from 5,028 in 1960 to 14,538 in 2010, an increase of 189% in 50 years. The 2020 Census placed Dickson's population at 16,058, an increase of 10.45% over 10 years and 219% over 60 years.
Today, Dickson is the 36th largest of 468 cities and towns in Tennessee, just ahead of Dyersburg (16,024) and right behind Goodlettsville (17,344) according to the 2020 Census.
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