- Name
- Jefferson
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- Alternate names
- Caswell County (USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS47041261)
- Jefferson (Getty Vocabulary Program)
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- Type
- County
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- Coordinates
- 36.05°N 83.45°W
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- Located in
- Tennessee, United States (1792 - )
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- See also
- Cocke, Tennessee, United States (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
- Greene, Tennessee, United States (Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
- Hamblen, Tennessee, United States (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
- Hawkins, Tennessee, United States (Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
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| Contained Places
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- Deserted settlement
- Beaver Dam
- Castlenook
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- Inhabited place
- Alena
- Baneberry
- Belmont
- Chestnut Grove
- Chestnut Hill
- Colliers Corner
- Cook Mill
- Dandridge
- Deep Springs
- Douglas Estates
- Dumplin Mill
- Dumplin
- Edna
- Fairview Heights
- Fielden Store
- Flat Gap
- Four Points
- Friends Station
- Grants Chapel
- Greenhill
- Hickory
- Hodges
- Jefferson City
- Kansas
- Keister
- Kimbrough Crossroad
- Lake View Park
- Leadvale
- Lucilla
- Mansfield Gap
- Mill Spring
- Mount Horeb
- Nances Grove
- New Market
- Oak Grove
- Oakland
- Piedmont
- Promised Land
- Ridgewood
- Rock Town
- Rocky Valley
- Rushy Springs
- Sandy Ridge
- Shady Grove
- Swann
- Swannsylvania
- Talbott
- Tryon
- White Pine
- Willardtown
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- Unknown
- Danridge
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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
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Together with Grainger and Hamblen counties, it is part of the Morristown, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area which is, as of December 2005, considered a component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette, TN Combined Statistical Area.[1] As of 2000, the population was 44,294. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 48,394 [2]. Its county seat is Dandridge6. Its current mayor is Alan Palmieri.
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source
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| 1792 | County formed | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1792 | Court records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1792 | Land records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1792 | Marriage records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1792 | 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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| 1880 | No significant boundary changes after this year | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1908 | Birth records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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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 | 9,017
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| 1810 | 7,309
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| 1820 | 8,953
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| 1830 | 11,801
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| 1840 | 12,076
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| 1850 | 13,204
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| 1860 | 16,043
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| 1870 | 19,476
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| 1880 | 15,846
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| 1890 | 16,478
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| 1900 | 18,590
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| 1910 | 17,755
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| 1920 | 17,677
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| 1930 | 17,914
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| 1940 | 18,621
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| 1950 | 19,667
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| 1960 | 21,493
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| 1970 | 24,940
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| 1980 | 31,284
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| 1990 | 33,016
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Note: in 1800 Cocke was reported with Jefferson.
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