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Community profile: Lakesite, Tennessee, offers low taxes, small-town values

A fisherman motors through Chickamauga Lake in Lakesite, Tenn.
A fisherman motors through Chickamauga Lake in Lakesite, Tenn. A fisherman motors through Chickamauga Lake in Lakesite, Tenn.

Location: In northern Hamilton County on Chickamauga Lake between Dallas Bay and the Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant

Size: 1.7 square miles

Population: 1,978

Founded: In 1972, the city was incorporated from a subdivision with about 200 homes. It was expanded through annexations in the 1990s.

Government: Ken Wilkerson, director of Hamilton County Emergency Medical Services, is mayor and chairman of the five-member City Commission, which also includes Vice Mayor John McPherson and commissioners Valerie Boddy, David Howell and William Neighbors.