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Brownfield sites in Knox County, Tennessee
EPA lists 44 brownfield sites in Knox County. Grant recipients report them. 7 carry EPA's ready-for-reuse flag.
Zoning: Check zoning with the city.
The sites
Each row is a site name and city, as EPA holds them. Where several sites share a name, the count shows how many.
| Site | City | Sites | EPA flags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto Sales | Knoxville | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Blount Avenue Corridor | Knoxville | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Brookside Mills | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Cityview Right of Way | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Coca Cola | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Delta Development | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Eagle Distribution | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Fillmore Street | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Former Dempster Dumpster Property | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Foundry Area (Zone 5B) | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Historic Knoxville High School | Knoxville | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Hopkins Avenue | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| International Electronics | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| KCDC Properties | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Knox River Warehouses | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Knox-Tenn Rental | Knoxville | 3 | Assessment (3) |
| KnoxAg (Zone 3) | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Knoxville College - Colston Performing Arts Center | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Knoxville Recycled Fibers (Zone 2) | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Ladies of Charity/former Lindsay Texaco Station | Knoxville | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment, Targeted assessment |
| Lindsay Texaco | Knoxville | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| McClung Warehouse | Knoxville | 1 | Cleanup, Targeted assessment |
| Morris Avenue (Zone 1) | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Powell Construction (Zone 2) | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Proctor Avenue (Zone 2) | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Prosser Road Fairground Property | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Regal Corporation Properties | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Riverview Properties | Knoxville | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Sanitary Laundry | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment, Cleanup |
| Southern Linen | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Southland Trucking | Knoxville | 1 | None |
| Specialty Metals and Supply Corporation | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Standard Knitting Mill | Knoxville | 1 | Assessment |
| Tipton Autobody | Knoxville | 1 | None |
8 more sites have an address or parcel number as the EPA name. We count them but don't show the name.
To see each site in Knox County on a map, use the Cleanups in My Community map, on EPA's site.
EPA flags
| EPA flag | Sites |
|---|---|
| Ready for reuse | 7 |
| Assessment | 27 |
| Cleanup | 2 |
| Targeted assessment | 2 |
| State or tribal program | 0 |
| Multipurpose grant | 0 |
| Area-wide planning | 0 |
A site can carry more than one flag. The grant flags show which kinds of EPA brownfield funding a site is listed under.
What this data holds
- Acreage isn't in EPA's national data, so we don't show site sizes.
- We hold no flood data for these sites.
- We show the city and county, not street addresses.
- Grant recipients report these sites to EPA. A flag is EPA's record, not a site visit.
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US EPA data, as of 18 Oct 2026, reported by grant recipients. Not endorsed by EPA. Not legal or environmental advice; confirm with the state or EPA region.