Sevier County & Smoky Mountain Area Links

2016 Gatlinburg & Vicinity Wildfires

Local News Media Information

Update:  December 2, 2016 - Friday

Due to the lack of national news coverage of the recent wildfires that struck the Gatlinburg area November of 2016, I received numerous requests via e-mail to include links to the local news media covering Sevier County. Sevier County is part of the Knoxville, TN DMA market. There are also some areas of Sevier County that can receive TV stations from the Tri-Cities, TN/VA DMA market as well as WLOS Channel 13 from the Greenville-Spartanburg, SC, Asheville, NC DMA market, so I'm including these also. The links that I've listed here are only for TV stations that maintain news departments. There are some stations in both DMA markets that do not maintain news departments. You can find the full list of Knoxville, TV stations here.

TV News & Local Radio Stations

WATE Channel 6 (ABC) - WVLT Channel 8 (CBS) - WBIR Channel 10 (NBC)
WCYB Channel 5 (ABC) - WJHL Channel 11 (CBS & ABC) - WLOS Channel 13 (ABC)
WSEV (MIxx 105.5) - Radio Locator (List of Gatlinburg Radio)

Newspapers

The Mountain Press - Seymour Herald - Tennessee Star Journal -
Smoky Mountians Valley Voice - Sevier News Messenger - East Tennessee Times

Disaster Recovery Efforts

Red Cross (East TN Chapter) - How You Can Volunteer To Help -
Sevier County Recovery Efforts (Mountain Tough) - Chimney Tops 2 Fire Facebook Page
Resources for Disaster Recovery (University of Tennessee)  -
Federal Emergency Management Agency (Tennessee Wildfires Case# DR-4293)

Public Libraries

Sevier County - Pigeon Forge - Anna Porter (Gatlinburg)

Area Weather

Note: Due to there being so many different weather providers out there, I chose to list these by each city with the provider links separate and also due to each city's changing climate being in the Smokies. Also, Charter Spectrum, which is the cable TV provider inside the three cities has recently redesigned their portal page and no longer offers weather information via their portal page, which is why those links have been removed from this page. If you happen to take advantage of your motel or resort's wi-fi connection during your stay in either of these cities, you will find that many of them also use Charter Spectrum as their broadband Internet Service Provider formerly part of UltraComm Cable Co. Xfinity does serve some outlying rural areas of Sevier County outside of these cities including some areas Kodak, Wears Valley, Upper Middle Creek, Caton's Chapel, and the outer East Parkway area of Gatlinburg near Glades Road formerly part of Greenbrier Cable Co, but not all rural areas and neither does AT&T. People who live in these under served rural areas are forced to rely on slow dial up access since many can't afford Satellite Internet.

Sevierville:  NOAA - The Weather Channel - Weather Nation - Yahoo - MSN - Xfinity

Pigeon Forge:  NOAA - The Weather Channel - Weather Nation - Yahoo - MSN - Xfinity

Gatlinburg:   NOAA - The Weather Channel - Weather Nation - Yahoo - MSN - Xfinity

Tourist Guide Sites

What To Do - Smoky Mountains Lodging Guide - Best Read Guide - Smoky Mountain Lodging Association
Visitors Guide - Smoky Mountain Navigator - Cherokee - Gatlinburg Attractions Association
Gatlinburg Convention & Visitors Bereau - Pigeon Forge Department of Tourism - Sevierville Tourism
Sevierville Chamber of Commerce - Seymour Chamber of Commerce - Gatlinburg Tourism
Pigeon Forge Tourism - Brochure Distribution Services - Online Brochures To Area Attractions
Smoky Mountain Heart Song

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

National Park Service Official Site - Friends of The Smokies - Oh Ranger - National Parks Foundation

Government

City of Sevierville - City of Pigeon Forge - City of Gatlinburg - Town of Pittman Center - Sevier County - School System
Eastern Band of The Cherokee Indians

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