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There are 95 counties in Tennessee. Each page combines local history notes with modern research starting points— formation data, courthouse pointers, census, vital records, towns, and neighbor jurisdiction tips.

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Clay County · seat Celina Cumberland County · seat Crossville Davidson County · seat Nashville Franklin County · seat Winchester Greene County · seat Greeneville Haywood County · seat Brownsville Henderson County · seat Lexington Jackson County · seat Gainesboro Lincoln County · seat Fayetteville Macon County · seat Lafayette Madison County · seat Jackson Montgomery County · seat Clarksville Moore County · seat Lynchburg Polk County · seat Benton Rutherford County · seat Murfreesboro Union County · seat Maynardville Warren County · seat McMinnville Washington County · seat Jonesborough Wayne County · seat Waynesboro Wilson County · seat Lebanon

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Anderson 1947 · Clinton Bedford 1807 · Shelbyville Benton 1835 · Camden Bledsoe 1807 · Pikeville Blount 1795 · Maryville Bradley 1836 · Cleveland Campbell 1806 · Jacksboro Cannon 1836 · Woodbury Carroll 1821 · Huntingdon Carter 1796 · Elizabethton Cheatham 1856 · Ashland City Chester 1879 · Henderson Claiborne 1801 · Tazewell Clay 1870 · Celina Mountains Cocke 1797 · Newport Coffee 1836 · Manchester Crockett 1871 · Alamo Cumberland 1855 · Crossville Coastal Plain Davidson 1783 · Nashville Piedmont Decatur 1845 · Decaturville DeKalb 1837 · Smithville Dickson 1803 · Charlotte Dyer 1823 · Dyersburg Fayette 1824 · Somerville Fentress 1823 · Jamestown Franklin 1807 · Winchester Piedmont Gibson 1823 · Trenton Giles 1809 · Pulaski Grainger 1796 · Rutledge Greene 1783 · Greeneville Coastal Plain Grundy 1844 · Altamont Hamblen 1870 · Morristown Hamilton 1819 · Chattanooga Hancock 1844 · Sneedville Hardeman 1823 · Bolivar Hardin 1819 · Savannah Hawkins 1786 · Rogersville Haywood 1823 · Brownsville Mountains Henderson 1821 · Lexington Mountains Henry 1821 · Paris Hickman 1807 · Centerville Houston 1871 · Erin Humphreys 1809 · Waverly Jackson 1801 · Gainesboro Mountains Jefferson 1792 · Dandridge Johnson 1836 · Mountain City Knox 1792 · Knoxville Lake 1870 · Tiptonville Lauderdale 1835 · Ripley Lawrence 1817 · Lawrenceburg Lewis 1843 · Hohenwald Lincoln 1809 · Fayetteville Piedmont Loudon 1870 · Loudon Macon 1842 · Lafayette Mountains Madison 1821 · Jackson Mountains Marion 1817 · Jasper Marshall 1836 · Lewisburg Maury 1807 · Columbia McMinn 1819 · Athens McNairy 1823 · Selmer Meigs 1836 · Decatur Monroe 1819 · Madisonville Montgomery 1796 · Clarksville Piedmont Moore 1871 · Lynchburg Piedmont Morgan 1817 · Wartburg Obion 1823 · Union City Overton 1806 · Livingston Perry 1819 · Linden Pickett 1879 · Byrdstown Polk 1839 · Benton Mountains Putnam 1842 · Cookeville Rhea 1807 · Dayton Roane 1801 · Kingston Robertson 1796 · Springfield Rutherford 1803 · Murfreesboro Mountains Scott 1849 · Huntsville Sequatchie 1857 · Dunlap Sevier 1794 · Sevierville Shelby 1819 · Memphis Smith 1799 · Carthage Stewart 1803 · Dover Sullivan 1779 · Blountville Sumner 1786 · Gallatin Tipton 1823 · Covington Trousdale 1870 · Hartsville Unicoi 1875 · Erwin Union 1850 · Maynardville Piedmont Van Buren 1840 · Spencer Warren 1807 · McMinnville Piedmont Washington 1777 · Jonesborough Coastal Plain Wayne 1817 · Waynesboro Coastal Plain Weakley 1823 · Dresden White 1806 · Sparta Williamson 1799 · Franklin Wilson 1799 · Lebanon Coastal Plain

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