Community Profile

Summary

The Forest Heights Neighborhood is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and is surrounded by the concurrent Interstates 40 and 75 to the north, Highland Memorial Cemetery to the west, the Pond Gap community to the East, and Sutherland Avenue, paralleled by 1897 feet of Greenway, to the south. The neighborhood is comprised of 218 properties on 89.7 acres. The oldest parts of the neighborhood along Forest Hills Boulevard have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Forest Hills Boulevard Historic District. The neighborhood was initially constructed in the 1920s and 1930s, though most of the current houses date to after World War II. The early development of Forest Heights was influenced by the rise of automobile travel. The neighborhood was annexed by the city of Knoxville in 1960. On the south end of the neighborhood, there is a 0.8-acre park which is owned by the City of Knoxville and maintained by the Knoxville Public Works Department and Forest Heights neighbors. The park features a paved walking loop, picnic tables, and play equipment buffered by native plants and shrubs.