Corona is an unincorporated community in Tipton County, Tennessee, United States.
[1] In 1811 and 1812, several earthquakes spreading out from the New Madrid Seismic Zone caused a tectonic shift which changed the course of the Mississippi River.
[1] The political border between Tennessee and Arkansas was established in the "Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation", signed by the United States and the Kingdom of Spain, on October 27, 1795 following the "middle of the channel or bed of the Mississippi River" as of that time.
[2][3] The Arkansas and Tennessee state line remained unchanged by the tectonic events of 1811 and 1812, still marking the middle of the Mississippi River as it was in 1795.
The state of Tennessee pays for the children in the population to attend schools in Arkansas.