Niota, TN

united states

Niota is a small Tennessee town of 735 people in McMinn County's rolling Appalachian foothills. State Route 39 connects it to Athens (8 miles southeast) and Interstate 75 (15 miles east), the main route to Knoxville or Chattanooga. McMinn County Airport handles general aviation nearby. The town sits along an old Tennessee Valley Railroad corridor, where abandoned railway grades still cross the surrounding farmland.