DYERSBURG, a city of north-western Tennessee, U.S.A., 15m. from the Mississippi river ; the county seat of Dyer county. It is on the Jefferson Davis highway, and is served by the Gulf, Mobile and Northern and the Illinois Central railways. The pop ulation was 6,444 in 1920 (37% negroes) and was 8,733 in 1930 by the Federal census. Large crops of cotton (41,997 bales in 1926), corn, peonies and small fruits are grown in the county; dairy farming is growing in importance ; and there are abundant timber resources. The city has flour and saw-mills, spoke and stave factories, a cheese factory, cotton gins and compresses, cot ton-seed-oil mills and textile mills employing 1,200. Dyersburg was founded about 1826.