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Smith County
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county in Tennessee, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Tennessee
- Named after
- Daniel Smith
- Seat
- Carthage
- Largest town
- Carthage
- Total
- 325 sq mi (840 km )
- Land
- 314 sq mi (810 km )
- Water
- 11 sq mi (28 km ) 3.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 20,981
- Density
- 61/sq mi (24/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 6th
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Daniel Smith
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Tennessee
- Contains
- Carthage
- Capital
- Carthage
- Population
- 19904
- Area
- 843
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Jackson County
- Official website
- smithcotn.com
- Image
- Smith-county-courthouse-tn1.JPG
- Households
- 7688
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- Commons category
- Smith County, Tennessee
- topic's main category
- Category:Smith County, Tennessee
- inception
- 1799-10-26
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Smith County, Tennessee
- different from
- Smith County
- water as percent of area
- 3.4
- native label
- Smith County
- per capita income
- 28134
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Encyclopedic overview
Galena-fluorite specimen from the Elmwood mine, south of Carthage
Smith County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,904. Smith County is located in the region of the state known as Middle Tennessee. Its county seat is Carthage. The county was organized in 1799 and is named for Daniel Smith, a Revolutionary War veteran who made the first map of Tennessee and served as a United States senator.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Smith County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.