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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Blount County is a U.S. county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its population was 123,010 at the United States Census, 2010. The county seat is at Maryville, which is also the county's largest city.
It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
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What is today Blount County was for many thousands of years Indian territory, passed down to the Cherokee tribe that claimed the land upon the arrival of white settlers in the late 18th century. Shortly thereafter, on July 11, 1795, Blount County became the tenth county established in Tennessee, when the Territorial Legislature voted to split adjacent Knox and Jefferson counties. The new county was named for the governor of the Southwest Territory, William Blount, and its county seat, Maryville, was named for his wife Mary Grainger Blount. This establishment, however, did little to settle the differences between white immigrants and Cherokee natives, which was, for the most part, not accomplished until an 1819 treaty.
Throughout its history the boundaries of Blount County have been altered numerous times, most notably in 1870 when a large swath of western Blount was split into Loudon and portions of other counties. Also, the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1936, while not affecting the legal boundaries of Blount County, has significantly impacted the use of southeastern Blount County.
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source
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| 1794 | Land records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1795 | County formed | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1795 | Court records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1795 | Marriage records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1795 | Probate records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1800 | First census | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1881 | Birth records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1910 | No significant boundary changes after this year | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1800 | 5,587
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| 1810 | 8,839
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| 1820 | 11,258
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| 1830 | 11,028
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| 1840 | 11,745
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| 1850 | 12,424
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| 1860 | 13,270
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| 1870 | 14,237
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| 1880 | 15,985
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| 1890 | 17,589
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| 1900 | 19,206
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| 1910 | 20,809
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| 1920 | 28,800
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| 1930 | 33,989
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| 1940 | 41,116
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| 1950 | 54,691
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| 1960 | 57,525
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| 1970 | 63,744
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| 1980 | 77,770
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| 1990 | 85,969
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Research Tips
External Links
- Outstanding guide to Blount County family history and genealogy resources (FamilySearch Research Wiki). Birth, marriage, and death records, censuses, wills, deeds, county histories, cemeteries, churches, naturalizations, newspapers, libraries, and genealogical societies.
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