Today Johnson County has a population of 18,000 with 7,000 households. The workforce of 7,200 work in many service type jobs as well as at the larger manufacturers like,’Danny Herman Trucking’ and ‘Nightline Industries’, Parkdale, Phoenix Medical Devices, and several lumber processing mills.

Mountain City, a small town of 2,500 is the county seat and is served by a public water and sewer system.

The school system of Johnson County consists of a high school, a Middle school, a vocational school, and 5 elementary schools with 2,300 students and 153 teachers.

Johnson County is located between Abingdon, VA, Boone, NC,and Elizabethton, TN and the tri-cities area of Bristol, Johnson City, Kingsport . It also lies south of I-81, north of I-40, west of I-77 and east of I-26.

There are 299 square miles of pristine forest and mountain ranges overlooking rivers, streams and fertile valleys.

Johnson County is served by a hospital, newspaper, library, police and sheriff’s department, and has a 4,500 foot paved airport. A city park provides ball fields, walking track, playground, war memorial, stage for music and plays, lake, skateboard course and cycling path.

Johnson County’s climate is moderate with average temperatures in the 80′s during the summer and 30′s in the winter. Rainfall is more than adequate for green grass, fruit trees and bountiful crops.

Johnson County’s elevation rises from valley floors at 1,900 feet above sea level to mountaintops of 5,000 feet