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Dickson County
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county in Tennessee, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Tennessee
- Founded
- October 25, 1803
- Named after
- William Dickson
- Seat
- Charlotte
- Largest city
- Dickson
- Total
- 491 sq mi (1,270 km )
- Land
- 490 sq mi (1,300 km )
- Water
- 1.4 sq mi (3.6 km ) 0.3%
- Estimate 2025
- 58,662
- Density
- 110/sq mi (43/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Area code
- 615 , 629
- Congressional district
- 7th
- Website
- dicksoncountytn .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- William Dickson
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Tennessee
- Contains
- Charlotte
- Capital
- Charlotte
- Population
- 54315
- Area
- 1272
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Houston County
- Official website
- dicksoncountytn.gov
- Image
- Dickson-county-courthouse-tn1.jpg
- Households
- 19559
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- Commons category
- Dickson County, Tennessee
- topic's main category
- Category:Dickson County, Tennessee
- different from
- Dickinson County
- inception
- 1803-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Dickson County, Tennessee
- water as percent of area
- 0.3
- native label
- Dickson County
- per capita income
- 29125
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Encyclopedic overview
Dickson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,315. Its county seat is Charlotte. Dickson County is part of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Dickson County is home to Tennessee's oldest courthouse in continuous use, built in 1835. This is the second courthouse in Charlotte as the first one, a log building, was destroyed in the Tornado of 1833, which destroyed all but one building on the courthouse square.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dickson County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.