Fayette County

Also known as Fayette County, Tennessee, Fayette County, TN

county in Tennessee, United States

Key facts

Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Founded: September 29, 1824
Named after: Marquis de Lafayette
Seat: Somerville
Largest town: Oakland
Total: 706 sq mi (1,830 km )
Land: 705 sq mi (1,830 km )
Water: 1.5 sq mi (3.9 km ) 0.2%
Estimate 2025: 45,071
Density: 59.6/sq mi (23.0/km )
Time zone: UTC−6 ( Central )
Summer dst: UTC−5 ( CDT )
Congressional district: 8th
Website: fayettetn .us

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Wikidata facts

Population: 41990
Area: 1829
Official website: fayettetn.us
Image: Somerville TN 01-2012 003.jpg
Households: 16040

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Commons category: Fayette County, Tennessee
inception: 1824-09-29
water as percent of area: 0.2
native label: Fayette County
per capita income: 34721

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Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 41,990. Its county seat is Somerville. The county was named after the Marquis de la Fayette, French hero of the American Revolution. A part of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area, Fayette County is culturally alike to the Mississippi Delta and was a major area of cotton plantations dependent on slave labor in the nineteenth century.

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