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Tennessee State Route 416

highway in Tennessee

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ2503571 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Route 416 (SR 416, also known locally as Pittman Center Road) is a secondary highway that runs south to north, entirely in Sevier County, Tennessee.

Route description

SR 416 begins in Pittman Center at US 321 and it ends at US 411 in eastern Sevierville. It is a two-laned road that curves through hilly terrain and farmland, and it is commonly used as an alternate route to bypass peak time traffic in Sevierville and Pigeon Forge on US 441. Junctioning with SR 454, near the convergence of Upper Middle Creek Road and Birds Creek Road, it may be used to reach the Gatlinburg Arts and Crafts Community.

Junction list

The entire route is in Sevier County.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tennessee State Route 416” is highway in Tennessee. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tennessee, State and Route, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 117-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tennessee, State and Route is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tennessee State Route 416” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.