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id="toc-Joppa_Mountain-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Waterways" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Waterways"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Waterways</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Waterways-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Adjacent_counties" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adjacent_counties"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Adjacent counties</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Adjacent_counties-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-State_protected_areas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#State_protected_areas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>State protected areas</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-State_protected_areas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demographics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Demographics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Demographics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Demographics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2020_census" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2020_census"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>2020 census</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2020_census-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2000_census" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2000_census"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>2000 census</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2000_census-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Law_and_government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Law_and_government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Law and government</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Law_and_government-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Law and government subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Law_and_government-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Executive_Branch" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Executive_Branch"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Executive Branch</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Executive_Branch-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legislative_Branch" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legislative_Branch"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Legislative Branch</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legislative_Branch-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-County_commission" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#County_commission"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.1</span> <span>County commission</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-County_commission-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Current_members_as_of_2020" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Current_members_as_of_2020"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.1.1</span> <span>Current members as of 2020</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Current_members_as_of_2020-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-School_Board" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#School_Board"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.2</span> <span>School Board</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-School_Board-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Appointed_officials" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Appointed_officials"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Appointed officials</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Appointed_officials-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Economy</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Economy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Economy subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Top_employers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Top_employers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Top employers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Top_employers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Agriculture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Agriculture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Agriculture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Agriculture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Real_estate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Real_estate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Real estate</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Real_estate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tourism_and_leisure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tourism_and_leisure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Tourism and leisure</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tourism_and_leisure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Industry_and_commerce" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Industry_and_commerce"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>Industry and commerce</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Industry_and_commerce-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economic_hardship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economic_hardship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.6</span> <span>Economic hardship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Economic_hardship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Communities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Communities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Communities</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Communities-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Communities subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Communities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Cities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Cities</span> </div> 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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Politics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Politics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Politics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_K%C5%ABn_(Tennessee)" title="Grainger Kūn (Tennessee) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Grainger Kūn (Tennessee)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8A%D1%80_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8A%D0%B3,_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8)" title="Грейнджър (окръг, Тенеси) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Грейнджър (окръг, Тенеси)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_County,_Tennessee" title="Grainger County, Tennessee – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Grainger County, Tennessee" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_County" title="Grainger County – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Grainger County" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_County,_Tennessee" title="Grainger County, Tennessee – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Grainger County, Tennessee" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_County" title="Grainger County – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Grainger County" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado_de_Grainger" title="Condado de Grainger – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Condado de Grainger" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_konderria_(Tennessee)" title="Grainger konderria (Tennessee) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Grainger konderria (Tennessee)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%8C_%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="شهرستان گراینگر، تنسی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شهرستان گراینگر، تنسی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Grainger" title="Comté de Grainger – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Comté de Grainger" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contae_Grainger,_Tennessee" title="Contae Grainger, Tennessee – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Contae Grainger, Tennessee" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1_%D9%9A_%D8%B4%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A)" title="گراینگر ٚ شأرستان (تنسي) – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="گراینگر ٚ شأرستان (تنسي)" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>گیلکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B7%B8%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B8%EC%A0%80%EA%B5%B0" title="그레인저군 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="그레인저군" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%B6%D5%BB%D5%A5%D6%80_%D5%B7%D6%80%D5%BB%D5%A1%D5%B6_(%D4%B9%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%AB)" title="Գրեյնջեր շրջան (Թենեսի) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Գրեյնջեր շրջան (Թենեսի)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF,_%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF" title="গ্রেইনগের কাউন্টি, টেনেসি – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="গ্রেইনগের কাউন্টি, টেনেসি" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contea_di_Grainger" title="Contea di Grainger – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Contea di Grainger" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_Comitatus" title="Grainger Comitatus – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Grainger Comitatus" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_megye" title="Grainger megye – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Grainger megye" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C)" title="گراینگر شهرستان (تنسی) – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="گراینگر شهرستان (تنسی)" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_G%C3%B4ng_(Tennessee)" title="Grainger Gông (Tennessee) – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Grainger Gông (Tennessee)" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_County" title="Grainger County – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Grainger County" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E9%83%A1_(%E3%83%86%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E5%B7%9E)" title="グレンジャー郡 (テネシー州) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="グレンジャー郡 (テネシー州)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_County" title="Grainger County – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Grainger County" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86%D9%B9%DB%8C" title="گرینگر کاؤنٹی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="گرینگر کاؤنٹی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_County" title="Grainger County – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Grainger County" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrabstwo_Grainger" title="Hrabstwo Grainger – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Hrabstwo Grainger" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado_de_Grainger" title="Condado de Grainger – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Condado de Grainger" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitatul_Grainger,_Tennessee" title="Comitatul Grainger, Tennessee – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Comitatul Grainger, Tennessee" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a 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српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_County" title="Grainger County – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Grainger County" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3,_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8)" title="Грейнджер (округ, Теннесси) – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Грейнджер (округ, Теннесси)" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainger_County,_Tennessee" title="Grainger County, Tennessee – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Grainger County, Tennessee" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3,_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D1%96)" title="Грейнджер (округ, Теннессі) – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Грейнджер (округ, Теннессі)" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86%D9%B9%DB%8C%D8%8C_%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="گرینجر کاؤنٹی، ٹینیسی – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="گرینجر کاؤنٹی، 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href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">County</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GraingerCountyCourthouse2020.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Grainger County Courthouse in Rutledge"><img alt="Grainger County Courthouse in Rutledge" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/GraingerCountyCourthouse2020.jpg/300px-GraingerCountyCourthouse2020.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/GraingerCountyCourthouse2020.jpg/450px-GraingerCountyCourthouse2020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/GraingerCountyCourthouse2020.jpg/600px-GraingerCountyCourthouse2020.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3478" data-file-height="2317" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Grainger County Courthouse in Rutledge</div></td></tr><tr 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Grainger_County%2C_TN_seal.png/150px-Grainger_County%2C_TN_seal.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Grainger_County%2C_TN_seal.png/200px-Grainger_County%2C_TN_seal.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Seal</div></div><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GraingerCoLogo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Official logo of Grainger County"><img alt="Official logo of Grainger County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/GraingerCoLogo.png/100px-GraingerCoLogo.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="47" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/GraingerCoLogo.png/150px-GraingerCoLogo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/GraingerCoLogo.png/200px-GraingerCoLogo.png 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="180" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Logo</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Motto(s): <div class="ib-settlement-nickname nickname">Commerce, Agriculture, Recreation</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Grainger_County.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location within the U.S. state of Tennessee"><img alt="Map of Tennessee highlighting Grainger County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Grainger_County.svg/300px-Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Grainger_County.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Grainger_County.svg/450px-Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Grainger_County.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">36°17′N</span> <span class="longitude">83°31′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">36.28°N 83.51°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">36.28; -83.51</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 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class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1796</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Namesake" title="Namesake">Named for</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Mary Grainger Blount</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">Seat</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rutledge,_Tennessee" title="Rutledge, Tennessee">Rutledge</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest town</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bean_Station,_Tennessee" title="Bean Station, Tennessee">Bean Station</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/County_executive" title="County executive">Mayor</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Mike Byrd (<a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">R</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ctas_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctas-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mayoralrace_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mayoralrace-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">302 sq mi (780 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">281 sq mi (730 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">22 sq mi (60 km<sup>2</sup>)  7.2%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a>)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">23,527 <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">81/sq mi (31/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Grainger Countian</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%925" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−5">UTC−5</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%924" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−4">UTC−4</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">EDT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ZIP_Code" title="ZIP Code">ZIP Codes</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">37708, 37709, 37848, 37861, 37881, 37888</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan" title="North American Numbering Plan">Area code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Area_code_865" title="Area code 865">865</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Congressional district</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tennessee%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Tennessee's 2nd congressional district">2nd</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graingercountytn.com">www<wbr />.graingercountytn<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Grainger County</b> is a <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">county</a> located in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>. As of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020 census</a>, the population was 23,527.<sup id="cite_ref-QF_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QF-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> is <a href="/wiki/Rutledge,_Tennessee" title="Rutledge, Tennessee">Rutledge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GR6_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR6-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Grainger County is a part of the <a href="/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee">Knoxville</a> <a href="/wiki/Knoxville_metropolitan_area" title="Knoxville metropolitan area">Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and formerly <a href="/wiki/Morristown,_Tennessee" title="Morristown, Tennessee">Morristown</a> <a href="/wiki/Morristown_metropolitan_area,_Tennessee" class="mw-redirect" title="Morristown metropolitan area, Tennessee">Metropolitan Statistical Area</a> until 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_Lakes_of_the_Crossing_from_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718101.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_Lakes_of_the_Crossing_from_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718101.jpg/220px-East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_Lakes_of_the_Crossing_from_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718101.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_Lakes_of_the_Crossing_from_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718101.jpg/330px-East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_Lakes_of_the_Crossing_from_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718101.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_Lakes_of_the_Crossing_from_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718101.jpg/440px-East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_Lakes_of_the_Crossing_from_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718101.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2029" data-file-height="1338" /></a><figcaption>View of <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Lake" title="Cherokee Lake">Cherokee Lake</a> from Bean's Gap atop <a href="/wiki/Clinch_Mountain" title="Clinch Mountain">Clinch Mountain</a>, the site of which longhunters would cross along the <a href="/wiki/Wilderness_Road" title="Wilderness Road">Wilderness Road</a> into present-day Grainger County.<sup id="cite_ref-family_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-family-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1775, pioneers <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Boone" title="Daniel Boone">Daniel Boone</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Bean" title="William Bean">William Bean</a> had first observed the <a href="/wiki/Holston_River" title="Holston River">Holston River</a> valley in Grainger County after crossing the gap at <a href="/wiki/Clinch_Mountain" title="Clinch Mountain">Clinch Mountain</a> during a <a href="/wiki/Longhunter" title="Longhunter">long hunting</a> excursion.<sup id="cite_ref-family_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-family-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After fighting in the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> one year later, Bean was awarded 3,000 acres (12 km<sup>2</sup>) in the area he previously surveyed for settlement during his excursion with Boone.<sup id="cite_ref-family_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-family-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bean would later construct a four-room cabin at this site, which served as his family's home, and as an inn for prospective settlers, <a href="/wiki/Fur_trade" title="Fur trade">fur traders</a>, and longhunters.<sup id="cite_ref-barksdale_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-barksdale-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Grainger County would be established into a county from <a href="/wiki/Knox_County,_Tennessee" title="Knox County, Tennessee">Knox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hawkins_County,_Tennessee" title="Hawkins County, Tennessee">Hawkins</a> counties by the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> state legislature on April 22, 1796,<sup id="cite_ref-soil-nrcs_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-soil-nrcs-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the year Tennessee became the sixteenth state of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-tehc_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tehc-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is named for Mary Grainger Blount,<sup id="cite_ref-origin_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-origin-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the wife of <a href="/wiki/William_Blount" title="William Blount">William Blount</a>, making it the only county in Tennessee named for a woman.<sup id="cite_ref-origin_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-origin-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1801, <a href="/wiki/Rutledge,_Tennessee" title="Rutledge, Tennessee">Rutledge</a> was selected as the county seat.<sup id="cite_ref-soil-nrcs_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-soil-nrcs-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Anderson, Claiborne, Campbell, Hamblen, Hancock, Scott and Union counties were formed from portions of the original Grainger County following its reduction in land size between 1801 and 1870.<sup id="cite_ref-archivespage_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archivespage-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civil_War">Civil War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like its surrounding East Tennessee counties, Grainger County was generally opposed to secession from the Union. In Tennessee's Ordinance of Secession referendum on June 8, 1861, sparsely populated Grainger County voters rejected secession by 1,756 to 495.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, a state of near-<a href="/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" title="Guerrilla warfare">guerrilla warfare</a> brought economic, political, and social chaos to Grainger County, notably during the <a href="/wiki/Knoxville_campaign" title="Knoxville campaign">Knoxville campaign</a>. Two arguments occurred within the county during the Civil War, with the first as a skirmish in Blaine around Christmas of 1862. In the year ahead, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bean%27s_Station" title="Battle of Bean's Station">Battle of Bean's Station</a> pitted the forces of <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate</a> General <a href="/wiki/James_Longstreet" title="James Longstreet">James Longstreet</a> against a <a href="/wiki/Union_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Army">Union forces</a> under General <a href="/wiki/James_M._Shackelford" title="James M. Shackelford">James Shackelford</a> in a planned <a href="/wiki/Military_deception" title="Military deception">surprise attack</a> that failed for Confederate forces through the critically poor decision-making of Longstreet's staff.<sup id="cite_ref-Collins_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collins-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the Battle of Bean's Station proved victorious for Longstreet in the end, he later failed to capture Knoxville westward through Blaine, and went into hiding in <a href="/wiki/Russellville,_Tennessee" title="Russellville, Tennessee">Russellville</a> in nearby <a href="/wiki/Hamblen_County,_Tennessee" title="Hamblen County, Tennessee">Hamblen County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hartley_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hartley-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1900s_to_present_day">1900s to present day</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1900s to present day"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the post-Civil War era, a businessman named Samuel Tate constructed a large <a href="/wiki/Victorian_architecture" title="Victorian architecture">Victorian-style</a> luxury hotel just west of Bean Station that became the main focus of a resort known as <a href="/wiki/Tate_Springs" title="Tate Springs">Tate Springs</a>. Around the late 1870s, the hotel was purchased by Captain Thomas Tomlinson, who would transform the property into a vast resort that advertised the supposed healing powers of its <a href="/wiki/Mineral_spring" title="Mineral spring">mineral spring</a>’s water.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During its heyday, the resort complex included over three-dozen buildings, a 100-acre (40 ha) park, and an 18-hole golf course.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The resort had attracted some of the wealthiest people in America during this time. The resort declined during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States" title="Great Depression in the United States">Great Depression</a>, and the hotel and most of its outbuildings have since been demolished after a major fire damaged the main hotel structure. The <a href="/wiki/Tate_Springs_Springhouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Tate Springs Springhouse">Tate Springs Springhouse</a> still stands just off U.S. Route 11W near Bean Station Elementary School. </p><p>In 1901, in the northern area of the county near Thorn Hill, a four-year conflict between two families, known locally as "The Battle of Thorn Hill," began following the murder of a prominent resident.<sup id="cite_ref-thornhillbattle_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thornhillbattle-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The feud fueled acts of violence such as assassinations of prominent citizens and racially-motivated murders against <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African Americans</a> in public places and businesses.<sup id="cite_ref-thornhillbattle_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thornhillbattle-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the early and mid 20th century, <a href="/wiki/Moonshining" class="mw-redirect" title="Moonshining">moonshining</a> became popular and spread throughout many communities in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-chamberhistory_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chamberhistory-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority">Tennessee Valley Authority</a> in the 1930s, many Grainger County residents had to be <a href="/wiki/Population_transfer" title="Population transfer">relocated</a> for the construction of both <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Dam" title="Cherokee Dam">Cherokee</a> and <a href="/wiki/Norris_Dam" title="Norris Dam">Norris</a> Dam in the southern and northern parts of the county. Bean Station experienced most of this loss, as the original site the town now resides in the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Lake" title="Cherokee Lake">Cherokee Lake</a> basin.<sup id="cite_ref-Collins_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collins-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the 875 families relocated for the Cherokee Project, 434 or 49.6% were from Grainger County.<sup id="cite_ref-Tennessee_Valley_Authority_1946_32_249_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tennessee_Valley_Authority_1946_32_249-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thornhillstore.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Thornhillstore.jpg/220px-Thornhillstore.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Thornhillstore.jpg/330px-Thornhillstore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Thornhillstore.jpg/440px-Thornhillstore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3625" data-file-height="2684" /></a><figcaption>General store in <a href="/wiki/Thorn_Hill,_Tennessee" title="Thorn Hill, Tennessee">Thorn Hill</a> circa 1940s</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1946, Grainger County suffered the loss of its third courthouse in Rutledge to a massive fire. However, most records, including those dating back to the county's establishment in 1796 were safe inside steel fireproof safes.<sup id="cite_ref-courtfire_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-courtfire-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1970s through the 1980s, plans for a 75-mile-long hiking trail system known as the Trail of the Lonesome Pine were proposed to run along the ridgeline of Clinch Mountain from the Tennessee-Virginia state line in Hancock County to its terminus in the city of Blaine in Grainger County. The plans were met with <a href="/wiki/NIMBY" title="NIMBY">extreme opposition from unwilling property owners</a>, particularly those from Grainger County, as the project would be nearly complete in the Hawkins and Hancock portions of the trail system. With the unwillingness from Grainger County property owners, the trail system would be abandoned all-together in 1981 despite the completion of construction outside of Grainger County.<sup id="cite_ref-brooks_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brooks-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 13, 1972, 14 people were killed in a <a href="/wiki/1972_Bean_Station,_Tennessee_bus_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="1972 Bean Station, Tennessee bus crash">head-on collision</a> between a <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_Lines" title="Greyhound Lines">Greyhound</a> double-decker bus and a tractor-trailer hauling carpet on <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_11W" title="U.S. Route 11W">U.S. Route 11W</a> in the Bean Station area of the county, making it the deadliest automobile accident of its time in Tennessee. This infamous crash, along with several other fatal crashes along the narrow two-lane stretch of U.S. Route 11W in Grainger County, gave it the nickname "Bloody Highway 11W."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On July 4, 2012, Grainger County received national attention when 10-year-old Noah Winstead and his friend, 11-year old Nate Lynam, were <a href="/wiki/Electrocution" title="Electrocution">electrocuted</a> due to frayed wiring being in contact with the water the boys were swimming near a <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Lake" title="Cherokee Lake">Cherokee Lake</a> marina in the German Creek area of the county.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the aftermath of the tragedy, Tennessee legislators passed the Noah and Nate Act, which required marinas to be routinely inspected safety hazards such as faulty wiring and dangerous equipment operations.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On <a href="/wiki/2018_Southeastern_Provisions_raid" title="2018 Southeastern Provisions raid">April 5, 2018</a>, Southeastern Provisions, a cattle slaughterhouse in the county,<sup id="cite_ref-knoxnewsiceraidsgraingercountrymeatpackingplant_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-knoxnewsiceraidsgraingercountrymeatpackingplant-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-abcnewsimmigrationraid_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abcnewsimmigrationraid-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was raided by <a href="/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement" title="U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a> (ICE); 11 workers were arrested and 86 more were detained, all of whom were suspected of <a href="/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Illegal immigration to the United States">residing in the United States unlawfully</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-knoxnewsiceraidsgraingercountrymeatpackingplant_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-knoxnewsiceraidsgraingercountrymeatpackingplant-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, the raid was reportedly the largest workplace raid in United States history.<sup id="cite_ref-abcnewsimmigrationraid_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abcnewsimmigrationraid-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2018, the owner of the meatpacking facility was found guilty of multiple state and federal crimes, including <a href="/wiki/Tax_evasion" title="Tax evasion">tax evasion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wire_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Wire fraud">wire fraud</a>, contamination of local water supply, employing undocumented immigrants not authorized to work in the US, and other numerous workplace violations.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Highway-11-Grainger-tn1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Highway-11-Grainger-tn1.jpg/220px-Highway-11-Grainger-tn1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Highway-11-Grainger-tn1.jpg/330px-Highway-11-Grainger-tn1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Highway-11-Grainger-tn1.jpg/440px-Highway-11-Grainger-tn1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3546" data-file-height="2264" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_11W" title="U.S. Route 11W">US-11W</a> near <a href="/wiki/Blaine,_Tennessee" title="Blaine, Tennessee">Blaine</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Clinch_Mountain" title="Clinch Mountain">Clinch Mountain</a> range rising in the distance</figcaption></figure> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Census_Bureau" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Census Bureau">U.S. Census Bureau</a>, the county has a total area of 302 square miles (780 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 281 square miles (730 km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 22 square miles (57 km<sup>2</sup>) (7.2%) is water.<sup id="cite_ref-GR1_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR1-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Grainger County is bounded on the northwest by the <a href="/wiki/Clinch_River" title="Clinch River">Clinch River</a> (impounded by <a href="/wiki/Norris_Dam" title="Norris Dam">Norris Dam</a> to form Norris Lake) and on the southeast by the <a href="/wiki/Holston_River" title="Holston River">Holston River</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Lake" title="Cherokee Lake">Cherokee Lake</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TN-32Grainger.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/TN-32Grainger.png/220px-TN-32Grainger.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/TN-32Grainger.png/330px-TN-32Grainger.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/TN-32Grainger.png/440px-TN-32Grainger.png 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_25E" title="U.S. Route 25E">U.S. Route 25E</a> descending the south slope of <a href="/wiki/Clinch_Mountain" title="Clinch Mountain">Clinch Mountain</a> towards <a href="/wiki/Bean_Station,_Tennessee" title="Bean Station, Tennessee">Bean Station</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Clinch_Mountain" title="Clinch Mountain">Clinch Mountain</a> is a major geographic feature that effectively separates the county into a southern section (including Bean Station, Blaine, Joppa, and Rutledge) and a northern section (including the communities of Washburn, Powder Springs, and Thorn Hill). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indian_Cave">Indian Cave</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Indian Cave"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Indian Cave is a historic site located on the <a href="/wiki/Holston_River" title="Holston River">Holston River</a> near present-day <a href="/wiki/Blaine,_Tennessee" title="Blaine, Tennessee">Blaine</a>. The cave was used for centuries before Europeans entered the area, as <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples" title="Indigenous peoples">indigenous peoples</a> settled in the area about 1000 CE.<sup id="cite_ref-History_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-History-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Remains of cane torches and other artifacts located in the cave indicate use by prehistoric indigenous peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Iroquoian" class="mw-redirect" title="Iroquoian">Iroquoian</a>-speaking <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> migrated into the area from the northeast, making the eastern Ohio River valley and <a href="/wiki/Appalachians" class="mw-redirect" title="Appalachians">Appalachians</a> down into South Carolina their historic territory.<sup id="cite_ref-History_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-History-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1700s, a Cherokee village was located just west of the main cave entrance, before the people were pushed out by encroaching Anglo-American settlers.<sup id="cite_ref-Matthews_2008_pp._83-104_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matthews_2008_pp._83-104-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/John_Donelson" title="John Donelson">Donelson Party</a> passed the Indian Cave entrance on their way down the Holston River in 1779 to settle present-day <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Matthews_2008_pp._83-104_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matthews_2008_pp._83-104-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the years after the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>, the number of settlers continued to increase. Under the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act" title="Indian Removal Act">Indian Removal Act</a> of 1830, Congress authorized the president to remove the Indians from the Southeast to territory west of the Mississippi River.<sup id="cite_ref-History_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-History-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hoke" title="Robert Hoke">Robert Hoke</a>, a former Confederate general from North Carolina, purchased the cave on July 21, 1869, as one of his business enterprises after the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. He had it mined for <a href="/wiki/Bat" title="Bat">bat</a> <a href="/wiki/Guano" title="Guano">guano</a>, a valuable natural fertilizer.<sup id="cite_ref-Matthews_2008_pp._83-104_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matthews_2008_pp._83-104-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Area businessmen formed the Indian Cave Park Association on January 4, 1916, to develop the cave as a commercial attraction, as was being done for other caves throughout the Great Smoky Mountains. The Association did not open the cave officially to the public until May 30, 1924. </p><p>On November 18, 2000, over 800 people from all over the United States attended an all-night dance party known as the "Rave in a Cave" in Indian Cave. The party lured many of its attendees via <a href="/wiki/Internet_advertisements" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet advertisements">Internet advertisements</a>. 22 arrests on drug charges were made and one party-goer died of a drug overdose. On the day of the party, nearby residents attempted to block access into the cave, leading to physical action by the attendees with baseball bats. Officials from the Grainger County sheriff's department had set up a road block to prevent further confrontations between county residents and the party attendees. Over 150 traffic citations were also filed as well.<sup id="cite_ref-ravecave_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ravecave-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The cave is not open to visitors and is closed to the public as of 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-Matthews_2008_pp._83-104_34-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matthews_2008_pp._83-104-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Joppa_Mountain">Joppa Mountain</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Joppa Mountain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joppa_Mtn_TN.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Joppa_Mtn_TN.jpg/220px-Joppa_Mtn_TN.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Joppa_Mtn_TN.jpg/330px-Joppa_Mtn_TN.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Joppa_Mtn_TN.jpg/440px-Joppa_Mtn_TN.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Summit of Joppa Mountain</figcaption></figure> <p>Joppa Mountain is located along the Clinch Mountain ridge in central Grainger County in the unincorporated community of <a href="/wiki/Joppa,_Tennessee" title="Joppa, Tennessee">Joppa</a>. Buzzard Rock is the summit of the mountain at an elevation of 2,530 feet (770 m) above sea level, making it one of the highest points in Grainger County. At this summit, the neighboring U.S. states of <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> can be seen, along with the <a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Gap" title="Cumberland Gap">Cumberland Gap</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Great_Smoky_Mountains" title="Great Smoky Mountains">Great Smoky Mountains</a> range, on a clear day. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hang_gliding" title="Hang gliding">Hang gliding</a> from Joppa Mountain was a pastime of many hang gliding enthusiasts around the United States and the world. Hang gliding on Joppa Mountain gained momentum in the mid-1970s and enjoyed considerable popularity until the late 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of the present day, Buzzard Rock is inaccessible to hang gliders and hikers alike due to the property being closed to the public since the 1990s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Waterways">Waterways</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Waterways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GCbridgeandmarina.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/GCbridgeandmarina.jpg/220px-GCbridgeandmarina.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/GCbridgeandmarina.jpg/330px-GCbridgeandmarina.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/GCbridgeandmarina.jpg/440px-GCbridgeandmarina.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3793" data-file-height="2854" /></a><figcaption>Marina adjacent to German Creek Bridge on <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Lake" title="Cherokee Lake">Cherokee Lake</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The main source of water in Grainger County is man-made <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Lake" title="Cherokee Lake">Cherokee Lake</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-soil-nrcs_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-soil-nrcs-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cherokee Lake was created during the 1940s as part of the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority">Tennessee Valley Authority</a>’s hydroelectric revitalization project. The lake is fed by multiple sources, including a series of natural creeks and runoff waters. The lake begins with its first source at Poor Valley Creek in Hawkins County, extends through Grainger County and neighboring Hamblen and Jefferson counties. Cherokee Lake ends at <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Dam" title="Cherokee Dam">Cherokee Dam</a> where the water is drained into the <a href="/wiki/Holston_River" title="Holston River">Holston River</a> along the Grainger/Jefferson border. In total, Cherokee Lake has 28,780 acres of surface area and extends for 400 miles of shoreline.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Holston River below Cherokee Dam continues southwestward along the Grainger/Jefferson border passing the communities of <a href="/wiki/New_Corinth,_Tennessee" title="New Corinth, Tennessee">New Corinth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richland,_Tennessee" title="Richland, Tennessee">Richland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Blaine,_Tennessee" title="Blaine, Tennessee">Blaine</a>, then crossing into Knox County, with the confluence with the <a href="/wiki/French_Broad_River" title="French Broad River">French Broad River</a> in Knoxville, forming the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_River" title="Tennessee River">Tennessee River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-holstonmap_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holstonmap-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the northern part of the county, the <a href="/wiki/Clinch_River" title="Clinch River">Clinch River</a> passes through <a href="/wiki/Thorn_Hill,_Tennessee" title="Thorn Hill, Tennessee">Thorn Hill</a> near the tri-border of Claiborne, Hancock and Grainger counties. The river then traverses northwestward along the Grainger/Claiborne border, flowing into the basin of <a href="/wiki/Norris_Lake_(Tennessee)" class="mw-redirect" title="Norris Lake (Tennessee)">Norris Lake</a> north of <a href="/wiki/Washburn,_Tennessee" title="Washburn, Tennessee">Washburn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Liberty_Hill,_Grainger_County,_Tennessee" title="Liberty Hill, Grainger County, Tennessee">Liberty Hill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TWRAgis_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TWRAgis-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In total, Norris Lake has 33,840 acres of surface area and extends for 809 miles of shoreline that Grainger shares with Union, Claiborne, <a href="/wiki/Campbell_County,_Tennessee" title="Campbell County, Tennessee">Campbell</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Anderson_County,_Tennessee" title="Anderson County, Tennessee">Anderson</a> counties.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjacent_counties">Adjacent counties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Adjacent counties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Claiborne_County,_Tennessee" title="Claiborne County, Tennessee">Claiborne County</a> (north)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hancock_County,_Tennessee" title="Hancock County, Tennessee">Hancock County</a> (northeast)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawkins_County,_Tennessee" title="Hawkins County, Tennessee">Hawkins County</a> (northeast)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamblen_County,_Tennessee" title="Hamblen County, Tennessee">Hamblen County</a> (east)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Tennessee" title="Jefferson County, Tennessee">Jefferson County</a> (south)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knox_County,_Tennessee" title="Knox County, Tennessee">Knox County</a> (southwest)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_County,_Tennessee" title="Union County, Tennessee">Union County</a> (west)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_protected_areas">State protected areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: State protected areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Buffalo Springs Wildlife Management Area</li> <li>Johnson Ridge Small Wildlife Area</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority">TVA</a> Noeton Resource Management Area</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-right"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1800_United_States_census" title="1800 United States census">1800</a></th><td>7,367</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1810_United_States_census" title="1810 United States census">1810</a></th><td>6,397</td><td></td><td>−13.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1820_United_States_census" title="1820 United States census">1820</a></th><td>7,651</td><td></td><td>19.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1830_United_States_census" title="1830 United States census">1830</a></th><td>10,066</td><td></td><td>31.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1840_United_States_census" title="1840 United States census">1840</a></th><td>10,572</td><td></td><td>5.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1850_United_States_census" title="1850 United States census">1850</a></th><td>12,370</td><td></td><td>17.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1860_United_States_census" title="1860 United States census">1860</a></th><td>10,962</td><td></td><td>−11.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_census" title="1870 United States census">1870</a></th><td>12,421</td><td></td><td>13.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1880_United_States_census" title="1880 United States census">1880</a></th><td>12,384</td><td></td><td>−0.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1890_United_States_census" title="1890 United States census">1890</a></th><td>13,196</td><td></td><td>6.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census">1900</a></th><td>15,512</td><td></td><td>17.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census">1910</a></th><td>13,888</td><td></td><td>−10.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census">1920</a></th><td>13,369</td><td></td><td>−3.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census">1930</a></th><td>12,737</td><td></td><td>−4.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census">1940</a></th><td>14,356</td><td></td><td>12.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census">1950</a></th><td>13,086</td><td></td><td>−8.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>12,506</td><td></td><td>−4.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>13,948</td><td></td><td>11.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>16,751</td><td></td><td>20.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>17,095</td><td></td><td>2.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>20,659</td><td></td><td>20.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>22,657</td><td></td><td>9.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>23,527</td><td></td><td>3.8%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote" style="text-align: center">U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1790-1960<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1900-1990<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1990-2000<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2010-2014<sup id="cite_ref-QF_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QF-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1034237262">.mw-parser-output .stack{box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .stack>div{margin:1px;overflow:hidden}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-left{float:left;clear:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-right{float:right;clear:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-left{float:left;clear:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-right{float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-left{float:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-right{float:right;margin-left:1em}}</style><div class="stack mw-stack stack-right"><div><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USA_Grainger_County,_Tennessee.csv_age_pyramid.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/USA_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee.csv_age_pyramid.svg/150px-USA_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee.csv_age_pyramid.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/USA_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee.csv_age_pyramid.svg/225px-USA_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee.csv_age_pyramid.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/USA_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee.csv_age_pyramid.svg/300px-USA_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee.csv_age_pyramid.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="520" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Age pyramid Grainger County<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020_census">2020 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 2020 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"> <caption>Grainger County racial composition<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Race </th> <th scope="col">Number </th> <th scope="col">Percentage </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a> (non-Hispanic) </th> <td>21,748 </td> <td>92.44% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">Black or African American</a> (non-Hispanic) </th> <td>118 </td> <td>0.5% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a> </th> <td>42 </td> <td>0.18% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a> </th> <td>53 </td> <td>0.23% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a> </th> <td>2 </td> <td>0.01% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Other/Mixed</a> </th> <td>791 </td> <td>3.36% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> </th> <td>773 </td> <td>3.29% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020 United States census</a>, there were 23,527 people, 8,959 households, and 6,510 families residing in the county. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000_census">2000 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 2000 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/Census" title="Census">census</a><sup id="cite_ref-GR8_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR8-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2000, there were 20,659 people, 8,270 households, and 6,161 families residing in the county. The <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">population density</a> was 74 people per square mile (29 people/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 9,732 housing units at an average density of 35 per square mile (14/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the county was 98.41% <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">White</a>, 0.32% <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Black</a> or <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">African American</a>, 0.15% <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Native American</a>, 0.09% <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Asian</a>, 0.02% <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Pacific Islander</a>, 0.40% from <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">other races</a>, and 0.61% from two or more races. 1.09% of the population were <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Latino</a> of any race. </p><p>There were 8,270 households, out of which 31.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.90% were <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">married couples</a> living together, 8.80% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.50% were non-families. 22.50% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.89. </p><p>In the county, the population was spread out, with 22.90% under the age of 18, 8.20% from 18 to 24, 30.50% from 25 to 44, 25.80% from 45 to 64, and 12.50% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.50 males. </p><p>The median age of a resident in Grainger County is 44.2.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The median income for a household in the county was $27,997, and the median income for a family was $33,347. Males had a median income of $25,781 versus $19,410 for females. The <a href="/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income">per capita income</a> for the county was $14,505. About 15.10% of families and 18.70% of the population were below the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Poverty line">poverty line</a>, including 22.40% of those under age 18 and 26.00% of those age 65 or over. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Law_and_government">Law and government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Law and government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Executive_Branch">Executive Branch</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Executive Branch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>County Mayor - Mike Byrd<sup id="cite_ref-mayor_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mayor-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Sheriff - James Harville<sup id="cite_ref-sheriff_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sheriff-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Register of Deeds - Rick Diamond<sup id="cite_ref-deeds_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deeds-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Circuit Court Clerk - Sherry Clifton<sup id="cite_ref-circuit_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-circuit-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Trustee - Rena Greer<sup id="cite_ref-trustee_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trustee-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Assessor of Property - Johnny Morgan<sup id="cite_ref-assessor_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-assessor-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Road Superintendent - Charlie McAnally<sup id="cite_ref-superintendent_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-superintendent-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>County Clerk - Angie Lamb<sup id="cite_ref-clerk_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clerk-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>General Sessions and Juvenile Court Judge - Lane Wolfenbarger<sup id="cite_ref-sessions_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sessions-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legislative_Branch">Legislative Branch</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Legislative Branch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="County_commission">County commission</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: County commission"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Grainger County has 15 county commissioners, with voters electing three individuals to serve from each of its five electoral districts.<sup id="cite_ref-commission_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-commission-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-officials_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officials-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Current_members_as_of_2020">Current members as of 2020</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Current members as of 2020"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-officials_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officials-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b>District 1: Avondale & <a href="/wiki/Rutledge,_Tennessee" title="Rutledge, Tennessee">Rutledge</a></b> <ul><li>Wendy Noe (Rutledge)</li> <li>Darell Stratton (Rutledge)</li> <li>Scott Wynn (Rutledge)</li></ul></li> <li><b>District 2: <a href="/wiki/Bean_Station,_Tennessee" title="Bean Station, Tennessee">Bean Station</a> & Rutledge</b> <ul><li>Johnny Baker (Rutledge)</li> <li>Rodney Overbay (Bean Station)</li> <li>Luke Stratton (Rutledge)</li></ul></li> <li><b>District 3: <a href="/wiki/Blaine,_Tennessee" title="Blaine, Tennessee">Blaine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joppa,_Tennessee" title="Joppa, Tennessee">Joppa</a> and Rutledge</b> <ul><li>Andy Cameron (Rutledge)</li> <li>Leon Spoone (Rutledge)</li> <li>Darrell Williams (Blaine)</li></ul></li> <li><b>District 4: <a href="/wiki/Powder_Springs,_Tennessee" title="Powder Springs, Tennessee">Powder Springs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thorn_Hill,_Tennessee" title="Thorn Hill, Tennessee">Thorn Hill</a>, & <a href="/wiki/Washburn,_Tennessee" title="Washburn, Tennessee">Washburn</a></b> <ul><li>James Acuff (Washburn)</li> <li>Justin Epperson (Washburn)</li> <li>Gary Dalton (Thorn Hill)</li></ul></li> <li><b>District 5: Bean Station & Mary Chapel</b> <ul><li>Becky Johnson (Bean Station)</li> <li>Larry Johnson (Bean Station)</li> <li>Mike Holt (Bean Station)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="School_Board">School Board</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: School Board"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county has ten school board members, with voters electing two individuals to serve from each of its five electoral districts.<sup id="cite_ref-officials_60-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officials-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-board_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-board-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Appointed_officials">Appointed officials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Appointed officials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Director of Schools - James Atkins<sup id="cite_ref-director_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-director-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Administrator of Elections - Gina Hispher<sup id="cite_ref-election_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-election-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Soil Conservation Director - Joan Coffey<sup id="cite_ref-soil_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-soil-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Solid Waste Director - Ed McBee<sup id="cite_ref-waste_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-waste-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Historical Archives Director - Stevvi Cook<sup id="cite_ref-archives_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Clerk and Master - Vicki Greenlee<sup id="cite_ref-master_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-master-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Office on Aging Director - Rita Jarnigan<sup id="cite_ref-aging_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aging-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Top_employers">Top employers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Top employers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to a data profile produced by the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development in 2018,<sup id="cite_ref-tnecd_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tnecd-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the top employers in the county are: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th># </th> <th>Employer </th> <th># of Employees </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td>Grainger County School District </td> <td>500 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Clayton_Homes" title="Clayton Homes">Clayton Homes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bean_Station,_Tennessee" title="Bean Station, Tennessee">Bean Station</a>) </td> <td>350 </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td>Grainger County </td> <td>200 </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>Clayton Homes (<a href="/wiki/Rutledge,_Tennessee" title="Rutledge, Tennessee">Rutledge</a>) </td> <td>200 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>Sexton Furniture Manufacturing LLC </td> <td>150 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agriculture">Agriculture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Agriculture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Grainger County is acknowledged as a predominately <a href="/wiki/Rural_area" title="Rural area">rural</a> and <a href="/wiki/Exurb" title="Exurb">exurban</a> county of the <a href="/wiki/Knoxville_metropolitan_area" title="Knoxville metropolitan area">Greater Knoxville</a> region.<sup id="cite_ref-easttnruralhomeless_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-easttnruralhomeless-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-exurban_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-exurban-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">Agriculture</a> has accounted for a large portion of the county economy throughout history due to the county's soil containing a mass amount of rich nutrients beneficial to select crops of choice.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Tomato" title="Tomato">tomato</a> has been the major crop, though <a href="/wiki/Cattle" title="Cattle">cattle</a> raising continues to important gains. Grainger County tomatoes have in recent decades become nationally and internationally renowned.<sup id="cite_ref-Collins_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collins-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, Grainger County was reported to have over 650 greenhouses, 923 farms producing 500 acres of field vegetables, and nearly 90,000 acres of farmland.<sup id="cite_ref-extension_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-extension-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The county celebrates the tomato in an annual <a href="/wiki/Festival" title="Festival">festival</a> since 1992. Around thirty-thousand festival-goers across the state of Tennessee and the United States gather to witness events about the county's heritage and its significant agricultural impact across the state of Tennessee, enjoy live music performances, purchase local produce and handmade gifts, and take part in arts and crafts events. The Grainger County Tomato Festival takes place during the final weekend in July.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Real_estate">Real estate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Real estate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Residential construction has been increasing in the county, with most occurring near the Cherokee Lake shoreline, the Bean Station area and the Blaine area.<sup id="cite_ref-Collins_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collins-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tacir_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tacir-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With a cost of living around $2,600, and an average housing cost of $420 monthly, it is one of the least expensive counties in Tennessee.<sup id="cite_ref-expense_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-expense-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017, the median value of property in the county was $110,600, compared to $229,700 nationally.<sup id="cite_ref-datausa_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-datausa-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tourism_and_leisure">Tourism and leisure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Tourism and leisure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cherokee_Reservoir_-_German_Creek_-_Bean_Station,_TN.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Cherokee_Reservoir_-_German_Creek_-_Bean_Station%2C_TN.jpg/220px-Cherokee_Reservoir_-_German_Creek_-_Bean_Station%2C_TN.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Cherokee_Reservoir_-_German_Creek_-_Bean_Station%2C_TN.jpg/330px-Cherokee_Reservoir_-_German_Creek_-_Bean_Station%2C_TN.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Cherokee_Reservoir_-_German_Creek_-_Bean_Station%2C_TN.jpg/440px-Cherokee_Reservoir_-_German_Creek_-_Bean_Station%2C_TN.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3779" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Lake" title="Cherokee Lake">Cherokee Lake</a> near <a href="/wiki/Bean_Station,_Tennessee" title="Bean Station, Tennessee">Bean Station</a></figcaption></figure> <p>By the late 19th century, a tourism industry had flourished around the <a href="/wiki/Mineral_springs" class="mw-redirect" title="Mineral springs">mineral springs</a> flowing from the Clinch Mountain range. The Tate Springs Resort complex located in the Bean Station region of the county, provided accommodations for tourists and business travelers alike until the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>. It included mineral baths and waters, an enormous resort hotel, a swimming pool and bathhouse, a springhouse constructed as a gazebo, private cabins, and a golf course. After the Great Depression, the resort had closed and the property was given to local authorities. A children's home and school occupied the space of the hotel and cabins, until a major fire destroyed the entire hotel in the 1960s. Today, the <a href="/wiki/Tate_Springs_Springhouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Tate Springs Springhouse">Tate Springs Springhouse</a>, the bathhouse, and several cabins are what remains of the complex.<sup id="cite_ref-Collins_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collins-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the 1940s, the county's tourism and recreational industry nonetheless sparked once again after the Tennessee Valley Authority's creation of Cherokee and Norris Lake in the southern and northern parts of the county respectively. Fishing, hiking, hunting, camping, golf, boating, water sports, and development of lakefront property seek to continue contributing to the county's economy.<sup id="cite_ref-Collins_14-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collins-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Industry_and_commerce">Industry and commerce</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Industry and commerce"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grainger_County_Industrial_Park.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Grainger_County_Industrial_Park.jpg/220px-Grainger_County_Industrial_Park.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Grainger_County_Industrial_Park.jpg/330px-Grainger_County_Industrial_Park.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Grainger_County_Industrial_Park.jpg/440px-Grainger_County_Industrial_Park.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="2268" /></a><figcaption>Grainger County Industrial Park, located between Rutledge and Bean Station</figcaption></figure> <p>In the county's early years, small businesses represented the secondary source of economic development. <a href="/wiki/Gristmill" title="Gristmill">Gristmills</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hatmaking" title="Hatmaking">hatters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saddle" title="Saddle">saddle</a> makers, <a href="/wiki/Tailor" title="Tailor">tailors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Practice_of_law" title="Practice of law">lawyers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dry_goods" title="Dry goods">dry goods</a> merchants supplied the many necessities for the county's isolated and spread-out agricultural communities.<sup id="cite_ref-Collins_14-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collins-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Shields family operated Holston Paper Mill, one of the earliest industries in the county. The Knoxville and Bristol Railroad, also known as the Peavine Railroad, ran through the Richland Creek Valley from Bean Station to Blaine. The tracks would later succumb to <a href="/wiki/Flood" title="Flood">flooding</a> after the damming of the Richland Valley by the TVA in the 1940s.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Clinchdale Lumber Company, a locally owned business, logged a significant portion of the county's timber in the early part of the 20th century. Afterwards, this <a href="/wiki/Deforestation" title="Deforestation">timbering</a> movement gave way to <a href="/wiki/Knitting" title="Knitting">knitting</a> mills and <a href="/wiki/Zinc_mining" title="Zinc mining">zinc mining</a> in the Clinch River Valley in the northern part of the county.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around the late 20th century, <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_marble" title="Tennessee marble">Tennessee marble</a> was <a href="/wiki/Quarry" title="Quarry">quarried</a> in the Thorn Hill region of Grainger County.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_hardship">Economic hardship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Economic hardship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unlike neighboring counties such as Jefferson, Hamblen, and Knox, Grainger County does not have county-wide <a href="/wiki/Zoning" title="Zoning">zoning ordinances</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-landuse_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-landuse-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which has led to the <a href="/wiki/Urban_sprawl" title="Urban sprawl">uncontrolled and controversial development</a> of RV campgrounds in predominately residential areas.<sup id="cite_ref-landuse_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-landuse-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-germancreek_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-germancreek-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, it was reported that nearly two-thirds of Grainger County residents <a href="/wiki/Commuting" title="Commuting">commute</a> to cities in surrounding counties such as <a href="/wiki/Morristown,_Tennessee" title="Morristown, Tennessee">Morristown</a> and <a href="/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee">Knoxville</a> for work.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With this, Grainger County was reported as one of five counties in the East Tennessee Development District region experiencing significant <a href="/wiki/Rural_flight" title="Rural flight">out-migration</a> of young college-educated adults leaving Grainger County for <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">urban economic hubs</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee">Knoxville</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morristown,_Tennessee" title="Morristown, Tennessee">Morristown</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-ceds2019_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ceds2019-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> due to the lack of employment opportunities in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-ceds2020_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ceds2020-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the fiscal year 2020, Grainger County was recognized as one of twenty-four counties in the state of Tennessee at risk of becoming economically distressed.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Communities">Communities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Grainger_County,_Tennessee_With_Municipal_and_Township_Labels.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Map_of_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee_With_Municipal_and_Township_Labels.jpg/220px-Map_of_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee_With_Municipal_and_Township_Labels.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Map_of_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee_With_Municipal_and_Township_Labels.jpg/330px-Map_of_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee_With_Municipal_and_Township_Labels.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Map_of_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee_With_Municipal_and_Township_Labels.jpg/440px-Map_of_Grainger_County%2C_Tennessee_With_Municipal_and_Township_Labels.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1143" data-file-height="1064" /></a><figcaption>Map of Grainger County with municipal and county subdivision labels</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cities">Cities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blaine,_Tennessee" title="Blaine, Tennessee">Blaine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutledge,_Tennessee" title="Rutledge, Tennessee">Rutledge</a> (county seat)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Town">Town</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Town"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bean_Station,_Tennessee" title="Bean Station, Tennessee">Bean Station</a> (small portion in <a href="/wiki/Hawkins_County,_Tennessee" title="Hawkins County, Tennessee">Hawkins</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unincorporated_communities">Unincorporated communities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Unincorporated communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beech_Grove,_Grainger_County,_Tennessee" title="Beech Grove, Grainger County, Tennessee">Beech Grove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee,_Tennessee" title="Cherokee, Tennessee">Cherokee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joppa,_Tennessee" title="Joppa, Tennessee">Joppa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lea_Springs,_Tennessee" title="Lea Springs, Tennessee">Lea Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_Hill,_Grainger_County,_Tennessee" title="Liberty Hill, Grainger County, Tennessee">Liberty Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Corinth,_Tennessee" title="New Corinth, Tennessee">New Corinth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powder_Springs,_Tennessee" title="Powder Springs, Tennessee">Powder Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richland,_Tennessee" title="Richland, Tennessee">Richland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate_Springs,_Tennessee" title="Tate Springs, Tennessee">Tate Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorn_Hill,_Tennessee" title="Thorn Hill, Tennessee">Thorn Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washburn,_Tennessee" title="Washburn, Tennessee">Washburn</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Grainger County School district has one high school, one middle school, four elementary/intermediate schools, one primary school, one K-12 school, and one alternative-placement school. The Grainger County School district has 3,637 students enrolled.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_school">Primary school</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Primary school"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Rutledge Primary School</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elementary_schools">Elementary schools</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Elementary schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bean Station Elementary School</li> <li>Joppa Elementary School</li> <li>Rutledge Elementary School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washburn_School" title="Washburn School">Washburn School</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Middle_school">Middle school</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Middle school"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Rutledge Middle School</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="High_schools">High schools</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: High schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grainger_High_School" title="Grainger High School">Grainger High School</a></li> <li>Washburn School</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_school">Alternative school</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Alternative school"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Grainger Academy</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A report conducted by the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Advisory_Commission_on_Intergovernmental_Relations" title="Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations">Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations</a> in 2018 found the top three infrastructure needs in Grainger County, with <a href="/wiki/Transportation_infrastructure" class="mw-redirect" title="Transportation infrastructure">transportation</a> at <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$108 million</span>, <a href="/wiki/Water_infrastructure" class="mw-redirect" title="Water infrastructure">water</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wastewater_treatment" title="Wastewater treatment">wastewater</a> at <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$11.4 million</span>, and <a href="/wiki/Recreation_area" title="Recreation area">recreation</a> <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$1.7 million</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-infrastructure_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infrastructure-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transportation">Transportation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_East_Tennessee_Crossing_Meeting_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718111.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_East_Tennessee_Crossing_Meeting_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718111.jpg/220px-East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_East_Tennessee_Crossing_Meeting_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718111.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_East_Tennessee_Crossing_Meeting_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718111.jpg/330px-East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_East_Tennessee_Crossing_Meeting_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718111.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_East_Tennessee_Crossing_Meeting_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718111.jpg/440px-East_Tennessee_Crossing_-_The_East_Tennessee_Crossing_Meeting_Clinch_Mountain_-_NARA_-_7718111.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2050" data-file-height="934" /></a><figcaption>U.S. Route 25E in northern Grainger County near Thorn Hill</figcaption></figure> <p>U.S. Routes <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_11W" title="U.S. Route 11W">11W</a> and <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_25E" title="U.S. Route 25E">25E</a> are the major arterial roadways in the county. US 25E, established as the <a href="/wiki/East_Tennessee_Crossing_Byway" title="East Tennessee Crossing Byway">East Tennessee Crossing Byway</a> and <a href="/wiki/Appalachian_Development_Highway_System#Corridor_S" title="Appalachian Development Highway System">Appalachian Development Corridor S</a>, provides four-lane <a href="/wiki/Limited-access_road" title="Limited-access road">expressway</a> north-south access to Hamblen and Claiborne counties. US 11W, established as Rutledge Pike and <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_State_Route_1" title="Tennessee State Route 1">Memphis-to-Bristol Highway</a>, provides four-lane expressway access in the municipalities of Bean Station and Blaine. The highway outside of these areas is two-lane.<sup id="cite_ref-etrrtp_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etrrtp-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>State Routes <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_State_Route_92" title="Tennessee State Route 92">92</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_State_Route_131" title="Tennessee State Route 131">131</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_State_Route_375" title="Tennessee State Route 375">375</a> are the secondary roadways in the county. SR 92 provides two-lane access from Rutledge to the Jefferson County line near <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Dam" title="Cherokee Dam">Cherokee Dam</a>. SR 131 provides two-lane access to Union and Hancock counties, and the unincorporated communities of Washburn and Thorn Hill. SR 375, established as Lakeshore Drive, provides two-lane access along the northern shore of Cherokee Lake to SR 92 and US 25E.<sup id="cite_ref-etrrtp_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etrrtp-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Utilities">Utilities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Utilities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Dam" title="Cherokee Dam">Cherokee Dam</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Hydroelectric_dam" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydroelectric dam">hydroelectric dam</a> constructed by the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority">Tennessee Valley Authority</a> in the early 1940s, is located at the Grainger-Jefferson county line and provides electricity for the surrounding region. The billing and operation of the electrical system is provided by Appalachian Electric Cooperative (AEC), a municipal power company that serves southern Grainger County excluding Blaine.<sup id="cite_ref-aecfacts_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aecfacts-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> AEC also provides the option for fiber broadband access for the service area.<sup id="cite_ref-aecfacts_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aecfacts-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bean Station Utility District, (BSUD), provides <a href="/wiki/Municipal_water" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal water">municipal water</a> access for southeastern Grainger County including the municipalities of Rutledge and Bean Station.<sup id="cite_ref-industry_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-industry-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Knoxville Utilities Board provides electricity to southwestern Grainger County including the city of Blaine and the community of Powder Springs.<sup id="cite_ref-kub_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kub-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Luttrell-Blaine-Corryton Utility District (LBCUD) provides municipal water services to this same region.<sup id="cite_ref-lbcabout_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lbcabout-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The municipalities of Rutledge, Blaine, and the county's industrial park have access to municipal <a href="/wiki/Sewage_treatment" title="Sewage treatment">sewage treatment</a> systems.<sup id="cite_ref-lbcsewer_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lbcsewer-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The eastern portion of the county, which is the most populated region, does not have access to a sewage treatment system.<sup id="cite_ref-phaseII_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-phaseII-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible floatright" style="font-size: 95%;"> <caption>United States presidential election results for Grainger County, Tennessee<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" rowspan="2">Year </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Third_party_(U.S._politics)" title="Third party (U.S. politics)">Third party(ies)</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th>No. </th> <th scope="col">%</th> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">%</th> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">% </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="2020 United States presidential election in Tennessee">2020</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">8,565 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>84.52%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,467 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">14.48% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">102 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.01% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee">2016</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">6,626 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>82.74%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,154 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">14.41% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">228 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.85% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="2012 United States presidential election in Tennessee">2012</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">5,470 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>75.43%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,668 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">23.00% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">114 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.57% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="2008 United States presidential election in Tennessee">2008</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">5,297 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>70.60%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,066 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">27.54% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">140 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.87% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="2004 United States presidential election in Tennessee">2004</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">4,907 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>65.19%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,569 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">34.13% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">51 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.68% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="2000 United States presidential election in Tennessee">2000</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,746 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>60.48%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,361 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">38.12% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">87 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.40% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1996_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1996 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1996</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,875 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>52.72%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,162 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">39.65% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">416 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">7.63% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1992 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1992</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,772 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>49.92%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,242 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">40.37% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">539 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">9.71% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1988 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1988</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,734 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>65.50%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,423 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">34.09% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">17 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.41% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1984 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1984</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,212 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>66.72%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,565 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">32.51% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">37 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.77% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1980 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1980</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,254 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>67.12%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,495 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">30.84% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">99 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.04% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1976_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1976 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1976</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,805 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>57.68%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,018 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">41.50% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">40 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.82% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1972 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1972</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,842 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>76.54%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">828 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">22.30% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">43 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.16% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1968 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1968</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,788 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>67.26%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">761 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">18.36% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">596 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">14.38% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1964_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1964 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1964</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,634 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>66.80%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,309 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">33.20% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1960 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1960</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,017 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>75.86%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">939 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">23.61% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">21 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.53% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1956 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1956</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,497 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>72.40%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">913 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">26.47% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">39 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.13% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1952 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1952</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,030 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>76.28%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">937 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">23.59% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.13% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1948 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1948</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,824 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>71.75%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">644 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">25.33% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">74 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.91% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1944_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1944 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1944</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,938 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>76.00%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">605 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">23.73% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">7 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.27% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1940 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1940</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,688 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>66.01%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">842 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">32.93% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">27 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.06% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1936_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1936 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1936</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,754 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>60.15%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,153 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">39.54% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">9 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.31% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1932 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1932</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,325 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>56.31%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">995 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">42.29% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">33 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.40% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1928_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1928 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1928</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,457 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>75.30%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">466 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">24.08% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">12 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.62% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1924_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1924 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1924</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,464 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>68.80%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">651 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">30.59% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">13 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.61% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1920 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1920</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,158 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>70.66%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">895 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">29.31% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.03% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1916_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1916 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1916</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,529 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>64.38%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">843 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">35.49% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.13% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#C97979"><b><a href="/wiki/1912_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee" title="1912 United States presidential election in Tennessee">1912</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">741 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">29.85% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">841 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">33.88% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">900 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;"><b>36.26%</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p>Like all of East Tennessee, Grainger County has long been overwhelmingly Republican, due to its powerful <a href="/wiki/Southern_Unionist" title="Southern Unionist">Unionist</a> sentiment during <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">the Civil War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last Democratic presidential candidate to ever carry Grainger County was <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a> in 1832. <a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">The Whig Party</a> carried the county consistently between 1836 and 1852, and since the Republican Party first contested Tennessee in 1868, it has won Grainger County in every election except in 1912 when the GOP was mortally divided and Progressive <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> carried the county over conservative incumbent <a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">William Howard Taft</a>. </p><p>The American Communities Project (ACP) characterized Grainger County as a 'evangelical hub,' due to the high number of religious residents tied to <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">evangelical</a> churches, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention" title="Southern Baptist Convention">Southern Baptist Convention</a>, and the county is in one of the most politically <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> types of the ACP's characteristic placements.<sup id="cite_ref-acp_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acp-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In recent elections, the county has shown little competitiveness for Democratic candidates in local, state, and federal elections. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grainger_County,_Tennessee&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Grainger_County,_Tennessee" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Grainger County, Tennessee">National Register of Historic Places listings in Grainger County, Tennessee</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading 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style="width:1%;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Town" title="Town">Town</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bean_Station,_Tennessee" title="Bean Station, Tennessee">Bean Station</a>‡</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area" title="Unincorporated area">Unincorporated<br />communities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beech_Grove,_Grainger_County,_Tennessee" title="Beech Grove, Grainger County, Tennessee">Beech Grove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee,_Tennessee" title="Cherokee, Tennessee">Cherokee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joppa,_Tennessee" title="Joppa, Tennessee">Joppa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lea_Springs,_Tennessee" title="Lea Springs, Tennessee">Lea Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_Hill,_Grainger_County,_Tennessee" title="Liberty Hill, Grainger County, Tennessee">Liberty Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Corinth,_Tennessee" title="New Corinth, Tennessee">New Corinth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powder_Springs,_Tennessee" title="Powder Springs, Tennessee">Powder Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richland,_Tennessee" title="Richland, Tennessee">Richland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate_Springs,_Tennessee" title="Tate Springs, Tennessee">Tate Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorn_Hill,_Tennessee" title="Thorn Hill, Tennessee">Thorn Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washburn,_Tennessee" title="Washburn, Tennessee">Washburn</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;color:inherit;">Footnotes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="3" style="color:inherit;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Tennessee_(state)" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal:Tennessee (state)"><span>Tennessee portal</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal:United_States" title="Portal:United States"><span>United States portal</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Knoxville_metropolitan_area" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/LaFollette,_Tennessee" title="LaFollette, Tennessee">LaFollette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenoir_City,_Tennessee" title="Lenoir City, Tennessee">Lenoir City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryville,_Tennessee" title="Maryville, Tennessee">Maryville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maynardville,_Tennessee" title="Maynardville, Tennessee">Maynardville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morristown,_Tennessee" title="Morristown, Tennessee">Morristown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oak_Ridge,_Tennessee" title="Oak Ridge, Tennessee">Oak Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newport,_Tennessee" title="Newport, Tennessee">Newport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutledge,_Tennessee" title="Rutledge, Tennessee">Rutledge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sevierville,_Tennessee" title="Sevierville, Tennessee">Sevierville</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Counties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anderson_County,_Tennessee" title="Anderson County, Tennessee">Anderson County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blount_County,_Tennessee" title="Blount County, Tennessee">Blount County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell_County,_Tennessee" title="Campbell County, Tennessee">Campbell County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cocke_County,_Tennessee" title="Cocke County, Tennessee">Cocke County</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Grainger County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamblen_County,_Tennessee" title="Hamblen County, Tennessee">Hamblen County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knox_County,_Tennessee" title="Knox County, Tennessee">Knox County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Tennessee" title="Jefferson County, Tennessee">Jefferson County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loudon_County,_Tennessee" title="Loudon County, Tennessee">Loudon County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_County,_Tennessee" 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href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Tennessee" title="Abortion in Tennessee">Abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannabis_in_Tennessee" title="Cannabis in Tennessee">Cannabis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_change_in_Tennessee" title="Climate change in Tennessee">Climate change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Name_of_Tennessee" title="Name of Tennessee">Name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Tennessee" title="History of Tennessee">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Tennessee" title="Outline of Tennessee">Outline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Tennessee" title="Geography of Tennessee">Geography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Tennessee" title="Gun laws in Tennessee">Gun laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_Tennessee" class="mw-redirect" title="Homelessness in Tennessee">Homelessness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Tennessee" title="List of people from Tennessee">Tennesseans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/African_Americans_in_Tennessee" title="African Americans in Tennessee">African Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Tennessee" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Tennessee">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Mass_media_in_Tennessee" title="Category:Mass media in Tennessee">Mass media</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Tennessee" title="List of newspapers in Tennessee">newspapers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Tennessee" title="List of radio stations in Tennessee">radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Tennessee" title="List of television stations in Tennessee">TV</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Tennessee" title="Constitution of Tennessee">Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Tennessee" title="Elections in Tennessee">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Tennessee" title="Governor of Tennessee">Governor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Tennessee" title="List of governors of Tennessee">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Tennessee" title="Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee">Lieutenant Governor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_General_Assembly" title="Tennessee General Assembly">General Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Supreme_Court" title="Tennessee Supreme Court">Supreme Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Military_Department" title="Tennessee Military Department">Tennessee National Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_Tennessee" title="List of law enforcement agencies in Tennessee">Law enforcement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Tennessee_state_symbols" title="List of Tennessee state symbols">Symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Tourist_attractions_in_Tennessee" title="Category:Tourist attractions in Tennessee">Tourist attractions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_Tennessee" title="List of colleges and universities in Tennessee">Colleges and universities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Tennessee" title="Crime in Tennessee">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Tennessee" title="Demographics of Tennessee">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Tennessee" title="Economy of Tennessee">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Tennessee" title="Education in Tennessee">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literature_of_Tennessee" class="mw-redirect" title="Literature of Tennessee">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Tennessee" title="Music of Tennessee">Music</a></li> <li>Media <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Tennessee" title="List of newspapers in Tennessee">newspapers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Tennessee" title="List of radio stations in Tennessee">radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Tennessee" title="List of television stations in Tennessee">TV</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Grand_Divisions_of_Tennessee" title="Grand Divisions of Tennessee">Grand Divisions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Tennessee" title="East Tennessee">East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_Tennessee" title="Middle Tennessee">Middle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Tennessee" title="West Tennessee">West</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Mountains" title="Blue Ridge Mountains">Blue Ridge Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains" title="Cumberland Mountains">Cumberland Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Plateau" title="Cumberland Plateau">Cumberland Plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Appalachian_Valley" title="Great Appalachian Valley">Great Appalachian Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Rim" title="Highland Rim">Highland Rim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Alluvial_Plain" title="Mississippi Alluvial Plain">Mississippi Alluvial Plain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_embayment" title="Mississippi embayment">Mississippi embayment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashville_Basin" title="Nashville Basin">Nashville Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridge-and-Valley_Appalachians" title="Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians">Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley" title="Tennessee Valley">Tennessee Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tri-Cities,_Tennessee" title="Tri-Cities, Tennessee">Tri-Cities</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Tennessee" title="List of municipalities in Tennessee">Largest cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee">Knoxville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chattanooga,_Tennessee" title="Chattanooga, Tennessee">Chattanooga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarksville,_Tennessee" title="Clarksville, Tennessee">Clarksville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murfreesboro,_Tennessee" title="Murfreesboro, Tennessee">Murfreesboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Tennessee" title="Franklin, Tennessee">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_City,_Tennessee" title="Johnson City, Tennessee">Johnson City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson,_Tennessee" title="Jackson, Tennessee">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hendersonville,_Tennessee" title="Hendersonville, Tennessee">Hendersonville</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_of_Tennessee" title="List of metropolitan areas of Tennessee">Metropolitan areas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chattanooga_metropolitan_area" title="Chattanooga metropolitan area">Chattanooga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarksville_metropolitan_area" title="Clarksville metropolitan area">Clarksville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_metropolitan_area,_Tennessee" title="Cleveland metropolitan area, Tennessee">Cleveland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_metropolitan_area,_Tennessee" title="Jackson metropolitan area, Tennessee">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_City_metropolitan_area,_Tennessee" title="Johnson City metropolitan area, Tennessee">Johnson City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingsport%E2%80%93Bristol%E2%80%93Bristol_metropolitan_area" title="Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol metropolitan area">Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knoxville_metropolitan_area" title="Knoxville metropolitan area">Knoxville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memphis_metropolitan_area" title="Memphis metropolitan area">Memphis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morristown_metropolitan_area" title="Morristown metropolitan area">Morristown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashville_metropolitan_area" title="Nashville metropolitan area">Nashville</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Combined_statistical_area" title="Combined statistical area">Combined<br />statistical areas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chattanooga%E2%80%93Cleveland%E2%80%93Dalton_combined_statistical_area" title="Chattanooga–Cleveland–Dalton combined statistical area">Chattanooga–Cleveland–Dalton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Micropolitan_statistical_area" title="Micropolitan statistical area">Micropolitan areas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cookeville_micropolitan_area" title="Cookeville micropolitan area">Cookeville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tullahoma%E2%80%93Manchester_micropolitan_area" title="Tullahoma–Manchester micropolitan area">Tullahoma–Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_City_micropolitan_area,_Tennessee" title="Union City micropolitan area, Tennessee">Union City</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Tennessee" title="List of counties in Tennessee">Counties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anderson_County,_Tennessee" title="Anderson County, Tennessee">Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedford_County,_Tennessee" title="Bedford County, Tennessee">Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benton_County,_Tennessee" title="Benton County, Tennessee">Benton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bledsoe_County,_Tennessee" title="Bledsoe County, Tennessee">Bledsoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blount_County,_Tennessee" title="Blount County, Tennessee">Blount</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bradley_County,_Tennessee" title="Bradley County, Tennessee">Bradley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell_County,_Tennessee" title="Campbell County, Tennessee">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannon_County,_Tennessee" title="Cannon County, Tennessee">Cannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carroll_County,_Tennessee" title="Carroll County, Tennessee">Carroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carter_County,_Tennessee" title="Carter County, Tennessee">Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheatham_County,_Tennessee" title="Cheatham County, Tennessee">Cheatham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chester_County,_Tennessee" title="Chester County, Tennessee">Chester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claiborne_County,_Tennessee" title="Claiborne County, Tennessee">Claiborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clay_County,_Tennessee" title="Clay County, Tennessee">Clay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cocke_County,_Tennessee" title="Cocke County, Tennessee">Cocke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coffee_County,_Tennessee" title="Coffee County, Tennessee">Coffee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crockett_County,_Tennessee" title="Crockett County, Tennessee">Crockett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_County,_Tennessee" title="Cumberland County, Tennessee">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davidson_County,_Tennessee" title="Davidson County, Tennessee">Davidson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decatur_County,_Tennessee" title="Decatur County, Tennessee">Decatur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DeKalb_County,_Tennessee" title="DeKalb County, Tennessee">DeKalb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dickson_County,_Tennessee" title="Dickson County, Tennessee">Dickson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dyer_County,_Tennessee" title="Dyer County, Tennessee">Dyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fayette_County,_Tennessee" title="Fayette County, Tennessee">Fayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fentress_County,_Tennessee" title="Fentress County, Tennessee">Fentress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_County,_Tennessee" title="Franklin County, Tennessee">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gibson_County,_Tennessee" title="Gibson County, Tennessee">Gibson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giles_County,_Tennessee" title="Giles County, Tennessee">Giles</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Grainger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greene_County,_Tennessee" title="Greene County, Tennessee">Greene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grundy_County,_Tennessee" title="Grundy County, Tennessee">Grundy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamblen_County,_Tennessee" title="Hamblen County, Tennessee">Hamblen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_County,_Tennessee" title="Hamilton County, Tennessee">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hancock_County,_Tennessee" title="Hancock County, Tennessee">Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardeman_County,_Tennessee" title="Hardeman County, Tennessee">Hardeman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardin_County,_Tennessee" title="Hardin County, Tennessee">Hardin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawkins_County,_Tennessee" title="Hawkins County, Tennessee">Hawkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haywood_County,_Tennessee" title="Haywood County, Tennessee">Haywood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henderson_County,_Tennessee" title="Henderson County, Tennessee">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_County,_Tennessee" title="Henry County, Tennessee">Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hickman_County,_Tennessee" title="Hickman County, Tennessee">Hickman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houston_County,_Tennessee" title="Houston County, Tennessee">Houston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humphreys_County,_Tennessee" title="Humphreys County, Tennessee">Humphreys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_County,_Tennessee" title="Jackson County, Tennessee">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Tennessee" title="Jefferson County, Tennessee">Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_County,_Tennessee" title="Johnson County, Tennessee">Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knox_County,_Tennessee" title="Knox County, Tennessee">Knox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_County,_Tennessee" title="Lake County, Tennessee">Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauderdale_County,_Tennessee" title="Lauderdale County, Tennessee">Lauderdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_County,_Tennessee" title="Lawrence County, Tennessee">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_County,_Tennessee" title="Lewis County, Tennessee">Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_County,_Tennessee" title="Lincoln County, Tennessee">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loudon_County,_Tennessee" title="Loudon County, Tennessee">Loudon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macon_County,_Tennessee" title="Macon County, Tennessee">Macon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison_County,_Tennessee" title="Madison County, Tennessee">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_County,_Tennessee" title="Marion County, Tennessee">Marion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_County,_Tennessee" title="Marshall County, Tennessee">Marshall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maury_County,_Tennessee" title="Maury County, Tennessee">Maury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McMinn_County,_Tennessee" title="McMinn County, Tennessee">McMinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McNairy_County,_Tennessee" title="McNairy County, Tennessee">McNairy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meigs_County,_Tennessee" title="Meigs County, Tennessee">Meigs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monroe_County,_Tennessee" title="Monroe County, Tennessee">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Tennessee" title="Montgomery County, Tennessee">Montgomery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moore_County,_Tennessee" title="Moore County, Tennessee">Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_County,_Tennessee" title="Morgan County, Tennessee">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obion_County,_Tennessee" title="Obion County, Tennessee">Obion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overton_County,_Tennessee" title="Overton County, Tennessee">Overton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perry_County,_Tennessee" title="Perry County, Tennessee">Perry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pickett_County,_Tennessee" title="Pickett County, Tennessee">Pickett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polk_County,_Tennessee" title="Polk County, Tennessee">Polk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putnam_County,_Tennessee" title="Putnam County, Tennessee">Putnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhea_County,_Tennessee" title="Rhea County, Tennessee">Rhea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roane_County,_Tennessee" title="Roane County, Tennessee">Roane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robertson_County,_Tennessee" title="Robertson County, Tennessee">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutherford_County,_Tennessee" title="Rutherford County, Tennessee">Rutherford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_County,_Tennessee" title="Scott County, Tennessee">Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sequatchie_County,_Tennessee" title="Sequatchie County, Tennessee">Sequatchie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sevier_County,_Tennessee" title="Sevier County, Tennessee">Sevier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelby_County,_Tennessee" title="Shelby County, Tennessee">Shelby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smith_County,_Tennessee" title="Smith County, Tennessee">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stewart_County,_Tennessee" title="Stewart County, Tennessee">Stewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sullivan_County,_Tennessee" title="Sullivan County, Tennessee">Sullivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee" title="Sumner County, Tennessee">Sumner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tipton_County,_Tennessee" title="Tipton County, Tennessee">Tipton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trousdale_County,_Tennessee" title="Trousdale County, Tennessee">Trousdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unicoi_County,_Tennessee" title="Unicoi County, Tennessee">Unicoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_County,_Tennessee" title="Union County, Tennessee">Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Van_Buren_County,_Tennessee" title="Van Buren County, Tennessee">Van Buren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_County,_Tennessee" title="Warren County, Tennessee">Warren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_Tennessee" title="Washington County, Tennessee">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_County,_Tennessee" title="Wayne County, Tennessee">Wayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weakley_County,_Tennessee" title="Weakley County, Tennessee">Weakley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_County,_Tennessee" title="White County, Tennessee">White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Williamson_County,_Tennessee" title="Williamson County, Tennessee">Williamson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilson_County,_Tennessee" title="Wilson County, Tennessee">Wilson</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><b><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Tennessee.svg/32px-Flag_of_Tennessee.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="19" class="mw-file-element" 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