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Pickett County
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county in Tennessee, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Tennessee
- Named after
- Howard L. Pickett, state legislator
- Seat
- Byrdstown
- Largest town
- Byrdstown
- Total
- 174 sq mi (450 km )
- Land
- 163 sq mi (420 km )
- Water
- 12 sq mi (31 km ) 6.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 5,219
- Density
- 31/sq mi (12/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 6th
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Pickett County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,001, making it the least populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Byrdstown. The city of Byrdstown and the Kentucky town of Albany, 11 miles (18 km) to the northeast, are positioned between two Army Corps of Engineers lakes: Dale Hollow Lake, mainly in Tennessee, and Lake Cumberland, in Kentucky. The area is known as "Twin Lakes" and Byrdstown is noted as "The Gateway To Dale Hollow Lake". Every year thousands of people vacation at the many resorts situated along the lakes.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pickett County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.