Anderson County, Tennessee

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Anderson County Courthouse
Anderson County Courthouse
administration
US state : Tennessee
Administrative headquarters : Clinton
Address of the
administrative headquarters: 		County Courthouse
100 N. Main Street
Clinton, TN 37716-3608
Foundation : November 6, 1801
Made up from: Grainger County
Knox County
Area code : 001 865
Demographics
Residents : 75,129  (2010)
Population density : 86 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 893 km²
Water surface : 19 km²
map
Map of Anderson County within Tennessee
Website : www.andersontn.org

The Anderson County is a county in the US state of Tennessee . At the 2010 census , the county had 75,129 people and a population density of 86 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Clinton , named after George Clinton , former Governor of New York and second Vice President of the United States.

The county is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area , the metropolitan area around the city of Knoxville .

geography

Norris Dam

The county is located in northeastern Tennessee and about 60 km to the north from Kentucky and the western tip of Virginia . It has an area of ​​893 square kilometers, of which 19 square kilometers are water.

The county is traversed by the Clinch River , which is part of the Mississippi basin via the Tennessee River and the Ohio . In the northeast of the county is Norris Lake, formed by the Norris Dam, one of the numerous dams along the Clinch River that the Tennessee Valley Authority built to generate energy.

The following neighboring counties border Anderson County:

Scott County Campbell County Union County
Morgan County Compass card (de) .svg
Roane County Knox County
Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1810 3959 -
1820 4668 17.9%
1830 5310 13.8%
1840 5658 6.6%
1850 6938 22.6%
1860 7068 1.9%
1870 8704 23.1%
1880 10,820 24.3%
1890 15,128 39.8%
1900 17,634 16.6%
1910 17,717 0.5%
1920 18,298 3.3%
1930 19,722 7.8%
1940 26,504 34.4%
1950 59,407 124.1%
1960 60.032 1.1%
1970 60,300 0.4%
1980 67,346 11.7%
1990 68,250 1.3%
2000 71,330 4.5%
2010 75.129 5.3%
2012 estimate 75,416 0.4%
before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010–2012

history

Joseph Anderson

Anderson County was formed on November 6, 1801 from former parts of Grainger County and Knox County. It was named after Joseph Anderson (1757–1837), an officer in the American Revolutionary War , later judge in the Southwest Territory (1791–1797), US Senator from Tennessee (1797–1815) and first auditor in the US Treasury (1815– 1836).

The Oliver Springs Banking Company is one of 19 entries for the county in the NRHP.

19 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of August 9, 2018).

population

According to the 2010 census , Anderson County had 75,129 people in 30,851 households. The population density was 86 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.35 people lived in each of the 30,851 households.

The racial the population was composed of 91.9 percent white, 3.8 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 1.1 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.4 percent of the population.

21.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 43,645  USD . The per capita income was $ 23,260. 17.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Anderson County

Citys

Town

Census-designated place (CDP)

Unincorporated Communities

1 - partly in Roane County
2 - partly in Campbell County
3 - partly in Morgan and in Roane County
4 - partly in Knox County

structure

Anderson County is divided into 8 numbered districts:

District Population (2010) FIPS
1 10,065 47-90002
2  9,336 47-90192
3 10,483 47-90382
4th  9.113 47-90572
5  8,691 47-90762
6th  9,051 47-90952
7th  8,875 47-91142
8th  9,515 47-91332

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anderson County ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Anderson County, WI Retrieved February 14, 2014
  3. ↑ a b National Association of Counties.Retrieved February 14, 2014
  4. ^ University of Virginia Library. Retrieved December 20, 2011
  5. ^ Extract from Census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011
  6. ↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 8 .
  7. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 9, 2018.
  8. ↑ Missouri Census Data Center - Tennessee  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 8, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / mcdc.missouri.edu  

Web links

Commons : Anderson County, Tennessee  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Coordinates: 36 ° 7 ′  N , 84 ° 12 ′  W