Dupont is a rural community within the small town of Seymour, Tennessee

Seymour, Tennessee

Seymour is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Blount and Sevier counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, United States. The CDP population was 8,850 at the 2000 U.S. census...

, within Sevier County, Tennessee

Sevier County, Tennessee

Sevier County is a county of the state of Tennessee, United States. Its population was 71,170 at the 2000 United States Census. It is included in the Sevierville, Tennessee, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette, TN Combined Statistical Area. The...

, in the eastern division

East Tennessee

East Tennessee is a name given to approximately the eastern third of the U.S. state of Tennessee, one of the three Grand Divisions of Tennessee defined in state law. East Tennessee consists of 33 counties, 30 located within the Eastern Time Zone and three counties in the Central Time Zone, namely...

 of the State of Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

, United States

United States

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Dupont got its name from Dew Point

Dew point

The dew point is the temperature to which a given parcel of humid air must be cooled, at constant barometric pressure, for water vapor to condense into liquid water. The condensed water is called dew when it forms on a solid surface. The dew point is a saturation temperature.The dew point is...

. In many cases, cool air will pool in a valley and push the lighter warmer air up the mountain side, in this case the east end of Bluff Mountain of the Chilhowee Mountain

Chilhowee Mountain

Chilhowee Mountain is a low ridge at the outer edge of the Great Smoky Mountains that stretches between the Little Tennessee River to the west and the Little Pigeon River watershed to the east...

 range. Since the ground at the higher altitude does not get chilled to the dew point, often no dew

Dew

[Image:Dew on a flower.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Some dew on an iris in Sequoia National Park]]Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening...

 would form. The National Weather Service

National Weather Service

The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government...

 calls this an inversion

Inversion (meteorology)

In meteorology, an inversion is a deviation from the normal change of an atmospheric property with altitude. It almost always refers to a temperature inversion, i.e...

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Early settlers within the Dupont Community were: Gibson, Graves, Latham, Reagan, Rogers and Thomas. Dupont has had many prominent and successful community activists.

Dupont Baptist Church, which began in the old Pickens School House, was founded in 1907 and still exists today. The old Pickens School House was later renamed Dupont School and was used as a 1st through 8th grade school until 1970. The schoolhouse was renamed and refurbished as the Dupont Community Center. Firehall Number Three of the Seymour Volunteer Fire Department is located next door to the Dupont Community Center.