Petros, Tennessee


Petros is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Morgan County, Tennessee, United States, located on State Route 116. Its population was 583 as of the 2010 census. Petros does have its own post office, with the ZIP code 37845.
Petros is historically a coal mining town and is also the home of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Some of the town and coal mine scenes for the movie October Sky were filmed there.