List of Tennessee Counties

Tennessee on a USA map

Tennessee divided into 95 counties

The following is a list of counties in the US state of Tennessee .

General data

Tennessee is made up of 95 counties ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] , ranking 10th out of 50 in the .
Of the 95 Tennessee county names, 75 are also found as county names in other states of the country.
2 out of 95 Tennessee counties have a population of more than 500,000, and 24.1% of the state’s population lives in them.
The population of Tennessee is 6,770,010 people (2018), the area is 109,247 km² (including land - 106,844 km² ). Thus, the average number of inhabitants of the district is 71,263 people, the average area of the district is 1,150 km² (including land - 1,125 km²), and the average population density is 63.4 people / km².

Counties by Decades

1770s - 2 counties
1780s - 4
1790s - 12
1800s - 20
1810s - 10
1820s - 14
1830s - 10
1840s - 7
1850s - 5
1860s - 0
1870s - 10
1880s - 1

"Recordsmen"

The largest district is Shelby , 2033 km² (including land - 1976 km²).
The smallest district is Truesdale , 303 km² (including land - 295 km²).
The county with the largest number of inhabitants is Shelby , 936 961 people.
The county with the smallest number of inhabitants is Pickett , 5142 people.
The county with the highest population density is Davidson , 529.7 people / km².
The county with the lowest population density is Perry , 7.4 p / km².
The oldest district is Washington , founded in 1777.
The youngest district is Chester , founded in 1882.
Northernmost District - Stuart
Most eastern county - Johnson
Southernmost District - 14 Counties
Westernmost District - Shelby

List

The default sorting is by county name, alphabetically. Also, any column can be sorted alphabetically (descending-ascending) by clicking on the black triangles in the column heading.

Title	Founded (year)	District center	Population (2016—2017)	Area total / sushi (km²)	Density (people / km²)	Comments links ^[4]
Anderson	1801		75 936	894/873	87.0	[one]
Bedford	1807		47,484	1230/1228	38.7	[2]
Benton	1836		16 014	1129/1020	15.7	[3]
Blount	1795		128 670	1469/1448	88.9	[four]
Bledso	1807		14 675	1054/1052	13.9	[five]
Bradley	1836		105 560	857/852	123.9	[6]
Van buren	1840		5689	712/707	8.0	[7]
Washington	1777		127 806	855/844	151.4	The oldest county in Tennessee. [eight]
Hamilton	1819	Chattanooga	357,738	1492/1404	254.8	[9]
Henry	1821		32 310	1536/1456	22.2	[ten]
Gibson	1823		49,401	1564/1562	31.6	[eleven]
Grandi	1844		13 389	935/934	14.3	[12]
Granger	1796		23,072	782/728	31.7	[13]
Green	1783		68 615	1616/1611	42.6	[14]
Dyer	1823		37,708	1365/1326	28,4	[15]
De calb	1837		19 361	852/787	24.6	[sixteen]
Decatur	1845		11 769	894/865	13.6	[17]
Giles	1809		29 307	1582/1582	18.5	[18]
Jackson	1801		11 566	829/798	14.5	[nineteen]
Jefferson	1792	Dandridge	53,535	813/710	75,4	[20]
Johnson	1836		17,754	785/772	23.0	The easternmost county of Tennessee. [21]
Dixon	1803		52,170	1272/1269	41.1	The District Courthouse is the oldest state courthouse in continuous use since 1835. [22]
Davidson	1783	Nashville	691,243	1362/1305	529.7	Adm. downtown is the capital of Tennessee and its largest city. District and its adm. the center is formed by the so-called " ". [23]
Cumberland	1855		58 655	1774/1764	33.3	[24]
Carter	1796		56 502	901/883	64.0	[25]
Glue	1870		7752	671/614	12.6	[26]
Clayborn	1801		31 757	1145/1127	28,2	[27]
Kok	1797		35,219	1147/1127	31.3	[28]
Coffey	1836	Manchester	54,682	1127/1111	49.2	[29]
Crockett	1871		14,473	689/689	21.0	[thirty]
Campbell	1806		39,714	1290/1243	32,0	[31]
Cannon	1836		14,027	689/689	20,4	[32]
Carroll	1821		28 092	1554/1551	18.1	[33]
Laudon	1870		51 454	640/593	86.8	[34]
Lake	1870		7560	502/430	17.6	14% of the district’s territory is occupied by open water areas - mainly it is lake. r and p. Mississippi [35]
Lincoln	1809		33 645	1479/1476	22.8	[36]
Lauderdale	1835		26,773	1316/1222	21.9	[37]
Lawrence	1817		43 081	1601/1598	27.0	[38]
Lewis	1843		11 904	730/730	16.3	[39]
Mc minn	1819		52 850	1119/1114	47.4	[40]
McNeyry	1823		25 935	1461/1458	17.8	County Sheriff from 1964 to 1970 was (1937-1974), a lone crime fighter whose songs and books were written about his life, TV series and films were shot (in particular, the famous and Walking Wide (2004) ). [41]
Marie	1807	Colombia	89 981	1595/1588	56.7	[42]
Marshall	1836		31 915	974/971	32.9	The district is known for breeding the so-called. "Fainting goats" ^[5] . [43]
Meigs	1836		12 005	562/505	23.8	[44]
Macon	1842		23,450	795/795	29.5	[45]
Monroe	1819		45 970	1691/1647	27.9	[46]
Montgomery	1796	Clarksville	200 182	1409/1396	143.4	Over 27 years (1990–2017), the population of the okrug increased by 2 times, and over 77 years (1940–2017) - 6 times. [47]
Morgan	1817		21 554	1352/1351	16,0	[48]
Moore	1871		6323	337/334	18.9	District and its adm. the center is formed by the so-called " ". [49]
Madison	1821	Jackson	97 663	1448/1443	67.7	[50]
Marion	1817		28,446	1326/1290	22.1	[51]
Knox	1792	Knoxville	461,860	1362/1316	351.0	[52]
Obion	1824		30,578	1440/1412	21.7	[53]
Overton	1806		22 051	1127/1121	19.7	[54]
Putnam	1854		77 674	1044/1039	74.8	[55]
Perry	1819		7964	1096/1075	7.4	[56]
Pickett	1879		5142	451/422	12,2	The most sparsely populated county of Tennessee and the 4th from the end of the area. Nevertheless, tourism is developed in the district, since there are two picturesque reservoirs here: and . [57]
Regiment	1839		16,772	1145/1127	14.9	[58]
Rutherford	1803	Murfreesboro	317 157	1616/1603	197.9	The county has both the Tennessee Geographic Center ^[6] and its population center (2010). [59]
Roan	1801		52,874	1023/935	56.5	[60]
Robertson	1796	Springfield	69 165	1233/1233	56.1	[61]
Ray	1807		32,442	870/816	39.8	[62]
Sullivan	1779		156 667	1114/1070	146.4	[63]
Sumner	1786		180 063	1406/1370	131.4	[64]
Sevir	1794		96 673	1549/1536	62.9	In the county is the highest point of Tennessee - Mount Klingmens House (2025 m). [65]
Secuachi	1857		14 897	689/689	21.6	[66]
Scott	1849		21 947	1380/1378	15.9	The county from 1861 to 1986. [67]
Smith	1799		19,447	842/813	23.9	[68]
Stewart	1803		13 182	1277/1189	11.1	The most northerly county of Tennessee. [69]
Типтон	1823		61 303	1225 / 1186	51.7	[70]
Трусдейл	1870		8271	303 / 295	28.0	Самый маленький округ Теннесси. Округ и его адм. центр образуют т. н. « ». [71]
Уайт	1806		26 653	982 / 976	27.3	[72]
Уикли	1823		33 507	1507 / 1502	22.3	[73]
Уилсон	1799		132 781	1510 / 1479	89,8	[74]
Уильямсон	1799	Франклин	219 107	1513 / 1510	145,1	За полвека (1966—2016) население округа выросло в 7,5 раз. [75]
Уоррен	1807		40 516	1124 / 1121	36.1	[76]
Уэйн	1817		16 713	1906 / 1901	8.8	[77]
Файетт	1824		40 036	1829 / 1826	21.9	[78]
Фентресс	1823		18 033	1292 / 1292	14.0	[79]
Франклин	1807		41 700	1492 / 1437	29.0	[80]
Хамфрис	1809		18 347	1443 / 1375	13.3	[81]
Хардимен	1823		25 435	1735 / 1730	14.7	[82]
Хардин	1819		25 679	1544 / 1494	17,2	[83]
Хейвуд	1823		17 853	1383 / 1380	12.9	Один из двух округов Теннесси с преобладающим чёрным населением (50,4 % по переписи 2010 г.; второй такой округ — Шелби ). [84]
Хендерсон	1821		27 822	1362 / 1347	20.7	[85]
Хикмен	1807		24 295	1588 / 1585	15.3	[86]
Хокинс	1787		56 563	1295 / 1261	44.9	[87]
Houston	1871		8134	536 / 518	15.7	[88]
Хэмблен	1870		63 785	456 / 417	153,0	[89]
Хэнкок	1844		6577	578 / 575	11,4	[90]
Chester	1882		17 453	741 / 741	23.6	Самый молодой округ Теннесси. [91]
Читам	1856		40 330	795 / 782	51,6	[92]
Шелби	1819	Мемфис	936 961	2033 / 1976	474,2	Самый большой округ Теннесси как по площади, так и по количеству жителей. Самый западный округ штата. Один из двух округов Теннесси с преобладающим чёрным населением (52,1 % по переписи 2010 г.; второй такой округ — Хейвуд ). [93]
Юникои	1875		17 719	482 / 482	36.8	[94]
Юнион	1850		19 140	640 / 580	33.0	[95]

Бывшие округа

Джеймс — существовал с 1870 по 1919 годы, ныне его территория входит в округ Гамильтон . Окружным центром Джеймса являлось поселение .
Теннесси — существовал с 1788 по 1796 годы, после чего был разделён на округа Монтгомери и Робертсон .

Maps

Округа Теннесси по доходу
Округа Теннесси по количеству достопримечательностей

Notes

↑ Tennessee County Selection Map on quickfacts.census.gov Archived from the original on November 18, 2007.
↑ County FIPS Code Listing for the State of Tennessee on epa.gov Archived from the original on September 28, 2004.
↑ Tennessee County on curlie.org
↑ Links to official Tennessee County sites on countystate.info
↑ “Goats, Music and More ...” Festival 2013 ( go ) at goatsmusicandmore.com Archived from the original on October 16, 2013
↑ Geographic Center of Tennessee on hmdb.org

Literature

Joseph Nathan Kane, Charles Kerry Aiken. "The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, and Population Data, 1950-2000" (2005) , ed. , 529 pp., ISBN 9780810850361
Encyclopedia of Tennessee History and Culture , ed. University of Tennessee Press

Links

Tennessee County: population (2000), area, county centers, year of foundation (English) on naco.org Archived from the original on April 10, 2005.
Tennessee County: population (1990-2002), area, county centers, electorate ( state ) on state.tn.us ( Tennessee Blue Book 2005-2006, pp. 616-626) Archived from the original on January 14, 2012
Encyclopedia of Tennessee
Relief of Tennessee counties on tnlandforms.us

[1] Tennessee County Selection Map on quickfacts.census.gov Archived from the original on November 18, 2007.

[2] County FIPS Code Listing for the State of Tennessee on epa.gov Archived from the original on September 28, 2004.

[3] Tennessee County on curlie.org

[4] Links to official Tennessee County sites on countystate.info

[5] “Goats, Music and More ...” Festival 2013 ( go ) at goatsmusicandmore.com Archived from the original on October 16, 2013

[6] Geographic Center of Tennessee on hmdb.org