Welcome to Alta Vista ...
Although we found mention of Alta Vista during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Alta Vista was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
While we are confident that Alta Vista was located in Hamilton County, we don't know its actual location within the county.
We've added Alta Vista to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Alta Vista - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Alta Vista, please Contact Us.
From the 2010 Census (the most recent Census number we have), Alta Vista had a population of 1,045 people.<2> (see below for details).
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Alta Vista might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time
We believe that Alta Vista would be found within the (423) area code.
Adding Alta Vista to Our Gazetteer ...
As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.
Our notes show that the earliest dated mention that we've found for Alta Vista was in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Alta Vista on our Genealogy Page.
Communities Also Named Alta Vista ...
Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are two Tennessee communities named Alta Vista: This one is located in Hamilton County and the other is located in McMinn County.
Beyond Tennessee, there are 27 communities that are also named Alta Vista - they are located in Alabama (2), California (3), Colorado (2), Florida (2), Georgia (2), Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Ontario, Saskatchewan, South Carolina (2), Texas (2), Utah (2) and Washington (2).
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Alta Vista.
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Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Hamilton County: www.hamiltontn.gov/
The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Alta Vista and then turned west". While Alta Vista could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Alta Vista as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Alta Vista could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Alta Vista. |