🏙 Towns & cities
Oliver Springs
town in Anderson, Morgan, and Roane counties, Tennessee, United States
🇺🇸 United States · 36.0381, -84.3369
Oliver Springs is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Oliver Springs, rather than at one identified spot.
“Filming for October Sky took place at several locations in rural East Tennessee, including Oliver Springs, Harriman, and Kingston.”
Movies filmed in Oliver Springs
Named here by Oliver Springs’s own Wikipedia article
Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Oliver Springs, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.
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October Sky 1999
“In the late 1990s, the movie October Sky was filmed in nearby coal mining areas as well as the city's downtown area.” Wikipedia
Filming locations nearby
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🏙 Towns & cities
Blount County
🇺🇸 United States
county in Tennessee, United States
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Harriman
🇺🇸 United States
city in Tennessee, United States
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Kingston
🇺🇸 United States
city in Roane County, Tennessee, United States
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Knoxville
🇺🇸 United States
city and county seat of Knox County, State of Tennessee, United States
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Oliver Springs?
1 production is recorded as filmed in Oliver Springs, including October Sky (1999).
Where is Oliver Springs?
Oliver Springs is in the United States, at 36.0381, -84.3369.
What other filming locations are near Oliver Springs?
Blount County, Harriman, Kingston and Knoxville, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Brian Stansberry, CC BY 3.0.