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Carter County, Tennessee

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
13historic places
—earliest paper
1796formed
56,356pop. 2020
189cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 13 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Elizabethton, Roan Mountain, Johnson City.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Tennessee is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Carter titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 13 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

13 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Brooks, Rueben, FarmsteadElizabethtonBuilding2001
Carter, John and Landon, House (Additional Documentation)ElizabethtonBuilding1972
Elizabethton Historic DistrictElizabethtonDistrict1973
Hunt, Henson, HouseJohnson CityBuilding1979
Miller FarmsteadRoan MountainDistrict2014
Renfro-Allen FarmElizabethtonDistrict1996
Sabine HillElizabethtonBuilding1973
Shelving Rock EncampmentRoan MountainSite2009
Simerly-Butler HouseHamptonBuilding1996
Sycamore Shoals NHLElizabethtonSite1966
U.S. Post OfficeElizabethtonBuilding1983
Watauga Hydroelectric ProjectElizabethtonDistrict2017
Wilder, John T., HouseRoan MountainBuilding1986

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Carter was formed in 1796 (1796-04-09) from Washington.

CARTER created from WASHINGTON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Carter County population from 1800 to 2020 (Census historical series).

57k31k4,19018001840188019101920196020002020
1800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
4,8134,8355,3727,12410,01916,68821,48835,12742,43241,57850,20556,74256,356

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

189 cemeteries and 7 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 189 listed
NameLatLon
Anderson Cemetery36.26482-82.3143
Arney Cemetery36.33566-82.20846
Barnett Cemetery36.13595-82.11124
Bennett Cemetery36.26104-82.11791
Berry Cemetery36.20066-82.2393
Birchfield Cemetery36.16595-82.0754
Birchfield Cemetery36.20775-82.107
Blackwell Cemetery36.20412-82.00975
Blackwell Cemetery36.19594-82.12762
Blevins Cemetery36.20066-82.18596
Bowers Cemetery36.32733-82.1704
Bowers Cemetery36.33983-82.15096
Bowers Cemetery36.36427-82.13679
Bowers Cemetery36.36622-82.10623
Bradley Cemetery36.33669-82.21823
Buck Cemetery36.18592-82.02347
Buck Cemetery36.2676-82.31847
Buck Cemetery36.33121-82.28402
Buckles Cemetery36.38288-82.11068
Cable Cemetery36.20733-82.23374
Calhoun Cemetery36.14929-82.08059
Campbell Cemetery36.30344-82.13901
Campbell Cemetery36.31719-82.00195
Campbell Cemetery36.31788-82.20374
Caraway Cemetery36.16637-82.02538
Carter Cemetery36.35371-82.20374
Carver Cemetery36.19844-82.23513
Carver Cemetery36.23566-82.16068
Cedar Grove Highland Cemetery36.32538-82.24624
Chambers Cemetery36.31233-82.18068
Chambers Cemetery36.20288-82.18929
Clark Cemetery36.17062-82.21486
Cochran Cemetery36.1926-82.22568
Colbaugh Cemetery36.3601-82.22791
Collins Cemetery36.22328-82.19664
Cordell Cemetery36.18259-82.02266
Crow Cemetery36.35677-82.11957
Curd Cemetery36.3851-82.27791
Curtis Cemetery36.3601-82.28347
Deloach Cemetery36.34681-82.18112
Ellis Cemetery36.38899-82.22541
Ellis Cemetery36.37518-82.20978
Estep Cemetery36.30372-82.12123
Estep Cemetery36.38093-82.21013
Flarity Cemetery36.34482-82.29902
Freeman Cemetery36.15289-82.07012
Garland Cemetery36.45622-82.03651
Gibbs Cemetery36.16564-82.06428
Goodwin Cemetery36.27567-81.99234
Goodwin Cemetery36.30261-82.13401
Gouge Cemetery36.149-82.08762
Gouge Cemetery36.14896-82.09345
Gouge Cemetery36.2244-82.17325
Green-Hill Cemetery36.35343-82.23319
Greer Cemetery36.13738-82.098
Griffith Cemetery36.31818-82.04753
Grindstaff Cemetery36.34038-82.16457
Grindstaff Cemetery36.41844-82.06734
Hall Cemetery36.28316-82.16151
Hamby Cemetery36.31539-82.05345
Hampton Cemetery36.19178-82.05873
Hampton Cemetery36.27109-82.17894
Happy Valley Memorial Park36.32538-82.2768
Hardin Cemetery36.3201-82.1604
Harmon Cemetery36.23169-81.96275
Hathaway Cemetery36.30677-82.19513
Hatley Cemetery36.309-82.00651
Hazelwood Cemetery36.28066-82.18124
Heaton Cemetery36.3301-82.16513
Hicks Cemetery36.18911-82.1389
Highland Cemetery36.33907-82.2149
Hill Cemetery36.24205-82.17401
Holly Hill Cemetery36.23535-82.14536
Honeycutt Cemetery36.22462-82.19154
Hughes Cemetery36.14011-82.12901
Hyder Cemetery36.2951-82.23763
Hyder Cemetery36.30371-82.21068
Hyder Cemetery36.21038-82.24596
Hyder Cemetery36.3126-82.26569
Ingram Cemetery36.23122-82.16624
Historical populated places — 7 of 7
NameLatLon
Cardens Bluff36.31539-82.11513
Gouge36.31817-82.09707
Laban36.20096-82.00956
Lineback36.30901-82.00401
Odemville36.24456-82.03873
Rexford36.36955-82.16596
Whiting36.33345-82.05401

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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