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, chief 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.