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Jasper

John Nelson, an instructor at Chattanooga Skydiving Company, helps Staffonie Weaver get out of the parachute at the Marion County Airport on Friday, February 28, 2014, in Jasper, Tenn. Weaver and her mother went skydiving to celebrate Weaver's 21st birthday.
John Nelson, an instructor at Chattanooga Skydiving Company, helps Staffonie Weaver get out of the parachute at the Marion County Airport on Friday, February 28, 2014, in Jasper, Tenn. Weaver and her mother went skydiving to celebrate Weaver's 21st birthday. John Nelson, an instructor at Chattanooga Skydiving Company, helps Staffonie Weaver get out of the parachute at the Marion County Airport on Friday, February 28, 2014, in Jasper, Tenn. Weaver and her mother went skydiving to celebrate Weaver's 21st birthday.

JASPER, Tenn.

Location: Jasper, the county seat, is in the south central portion of Marion County near the Sequatchie River on U.S. Highway 41.

Size: 9.2 square miles

Incorporated: 1959

Population: 3,299 (2014 estimate)