Mount Carmel is a city in Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States.

It is part of the Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the "Tri-Cities" region.

Governed by John Sevier, it operated as an independent state for four years before it ultimately rejoined North Carolina.

[7] Mount Carmel once garnered national attention in the mid-2000s because of a CBS News story stating the town's geography is situated on only one side of the main highway through the area.

[8] Since the 1980s, the community has faced economic hardship due to political turmoil in its government operations, and the outsourcing of its retail and municipal services to neighboring Church Hill and Kingsport.

Calls for Mount Carmel to merge into Kingsport or Church Hill have been raised since 2021 because of the financial instability.

U.S. Route 11W is the main highway through the town, leading east into Kingsport and southwest 22 miles (35 km) to Rogersville, the Hawkins county seat.