Ducktown (Cherokee: ᎦᏬᏅᏱ, romanized: Gawonvyi) is a city in Polk County, Tennessee, United States.

Ducktown is located in a geological region known as the Copper Basin, and was the center of a major copper-mining district from 1847 until 1987.

[8] Ducktown and several Ducktown-area features, such as Big Frog Mountain and the Ocoee River ("Oconee"), are mentioned in the Sut Lovingood tales.

[citation needed] The Cherokee inhabited the Copper Basin as early as the late 18th century, well before the arrival of the first Euro-American settlers.

The Cherokee village of Gawonvyi (also known as Kawana)— which means “duck place” in English[9]— is believed to have been located at the confluence of the Ocoee River and Tumbling Creek.

[10] In 1836, the Cherokee relinquished control of the Copper Basin to the U.S. government as part of lands they ceded in Tennessee and Georgia in the Treaty of New Echota.

Although the U.S. removed many of the basin's Cherokee inhabitants in the march to Indian Territory, some avoided the roundup by hiding out in the surrounding mountains.

Mining ceased when Union troops destroyed the copper refinery and mill at Cleveland, Tennessee in 1863.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), all land.