White County (Tennessee)

administration
White County Courthouse
US state :	Tennessee
Administrative headquarters :	Sparta
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 1 East Bockman Way Sparta, TN 38583-2049
Foundation :	September 11, 1806
Made up from:	Smith County
Area code :	001 931
Demographics
Residents :	25,841 (2010)
Population density :	26.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	983 km²
Water surface :	7 km²
map

White County is a county in the state of Tennessee in the United States . The county seat is Sparta .

geography

The county is located east of the geographic center of Tennessee and has an area of 983 square kilometers, of which 7 square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Bledsoe County , Cumberland County , DeKalb County , Putnam County , Van Buren County, and Warren County .

Cities and Towns

Doyle
Sparta

Unincorporated Communities

history

White County was formed on September 11, 1806 from parts of Smith County. It is controversial who the county was named after. The official records state that it has been named after John White (1751-1846), the first settler in the area from Europe, who immigrated to the Cumberland Mountains with his family from Virginia in 1789 . Some historians instead state that the county was named after General James White , who fought in the Revolutionary War and was the founder of Knoxville . Aiken and Kane give in The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 only John White as the namesake.

The Sparta Electric Building is one of the county's eleven entries in the NRHP.

Eleven structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of September 14, 2018).

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1900	14,157	-
1910	15,420	8.9%
1920	15,701	1.8%
1930	15,543	-1 %
1940	15,983	2.8%
1950	16,204	1.4%
1960	15,577	-3.9%
1970	17,088	9.7%
1980	19,567	14.5%
1990	20,090	2.7%
2000	23.102	15%
2010	25,841	11.9%
1900-1990 2000

White County Age Pyramid

As of the 2000 census , White County had 23,102 people in 9,229 households and 6,774 families. The population density was 24 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 96.63 percent white, 1.64 percent African American, 0.20 percent Native American, 0.23 percent Asian, 0.05 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.46 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.79 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.03 percent of the population.

Of the 9,229 households, 30.4 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 58.5 percent were married couples living together, 10.8 percent were single mothers, and 26.6 percent were non-families. 23.4 percent were single households and 10.8 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.47 and the average household size was 2.90 people.

23.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 7.9 percent between 18 and 24, 27.9 percent between 25 and 44, 25.4 percent between 45 and 64 and 15.3 percent were older than 65. The median age was 39 years. Statistically, for every 100 females there were 96.2 males and for every 100 females aged 18 and over there were 92.4 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 29,383 , and the median income for a family is $ 34,854. Males had a median income of $ 26,706 versus $ 20,346 for females. The per capita income was $ 14,791. 11.2 percent of families and 14.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

^ White County ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011.
^ Brief History of White County , White County TNGenWeb Project Web site, accessed July 16, 2012.
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. 328 .
↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed September 14, 2018.
↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
↑ Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011
^ White County, Tennessee , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .

Web links

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

35.93 -85.45Coordinates: 35 ° 56 ′ N , 85 ° 27 ′ W

[1] White County ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011.

[GenWeb-2] Brief History of White County , White County TNGenWeb Project Web site, accessed July 16, 2012.
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. 328 .

[3] Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed September 14, 2018.

[4] Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011

[5] Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011

[6] White County, Tennessee , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .