Short answers, pulled from the story.
Bands of Shawnee, Delaware, Creek, and Cherokee refugees established a settlement on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the early 1780s. Spanish Governor Bernardo de Gálvez appointed Colonel George Morgan to oversee this community under Spanish rule.
A series of nearly 2,000 earthquakes struck the area including magnitude 8 tremors that created Reelfoot Lake and reshaped the landscape. Scientists consider these events the most powerful non-subduction zone earthquakes ever recorded in the United States.
John William Brownell served as mayor when the town incorporated as a second-class city in 1878. He fought under Confederate General Sterling Price as a first lieutenant before taking office.
The population stood at 2,787 according to the 2020 United States census. Racial makeup included 70.30% White and 28.10% Black or African American residents.
The coldest temperature ever recorded was on the 17th of January 1982. The hottest record occurred on the 4th of August 1964.