Citico (Cherokee town)

Citico
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Citico ("Settacoo") on Henry Timberlake's 1762 "Draught of the Cherokee Country"
Location	Monroe County, Tennessee
Nearest city	Vonore
Coordinates	35°32′56″N 84°5′56″W / 35.54889°N 84.09889°W / 35.54889; -84.09889
Built	1000–1500 CE
NRHP reference No.	78002614
Added to NRHP	1978

Citico (also "Settaco", "Sitiku", and similar variations) is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The site's namesake Cherokee village was the largest of the Overhill towns, housing an estimated Indian population of 1,000 by the mid-18th century.^[1] The Mississippian village that preceded the site's Cherokee occupation is believed to have been the village of "Satapo" visited by the Juan Pardo expedition in 1567.

The Citico (Cherokee: ᏏᏘᎫ, romanized: Sitigu) site is now submerged by the Tellico Lake impoundment of the Little Tennessee River, created by the completion of Tellico Dam at the mouth of the river in 1979. The modern community of Citico Beach has developed along the shoreline above the ancient site. The lake is managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.