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Dyer County, Tennessee

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
10historic places
—earliest paper
1823formed
36,801pop. 2020
60cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Dyersburg, Newbern, Finley.

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 Dyer titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Bank of DyersburgDyersburgBuilding1983
Bruce High SchoolDyersburgBuilding2023
Cole-Boston HouseNewbernBuilding2025
Dyersburg Courthouse Square Historic DistrictDyersburgDistrict1991
Gordon-Oak Streets Historic DistrictDyersburgDistrict1992
King, Edward Moody, HouseDyersburgBuilding1990
Latta HouseDyersburgBuilding1978
Newbern Illinois Central DepotNewbernBuilding1993
Pleasant Hill CemeteryFinleySite2003
Troy Avenue Historic DistrictDyersburgDistrict1992

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Dyer was formed in 1823 (1823-10-16) from unknown / original county.

DYER created from Non-County Area 12 attached to MADISON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Dyer County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

38k20k1,90418301840188019201930196020002020
183018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,9044,48410,53615,11823,77629,98334,92033,47329,53734,66337,27936,801

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

60 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 60 of 60 listed
NameLatLon
Atkins Cemetery36.10201-89.23312
Bailey Cemetery36.15284-89.3509
Beech Grove Cemetery36.05145-89.47285
Bledsoe Cemetery36.1334-89.42618
Butterworth Cemetery35.98951-89.39757
Carter Cemetery36.0159-89.43257
Center Cemetery36.0834-89.18562
Church Grove Cemetery36.11034-89.29701
Clark Cemetery36.04645-89.36729
Clay Cemetery35.97618-89.34562
Dyer County Cemetery36.06951-89.33757
Fairview Cemetery36.10645-89.2634
Fairview Cemetery36.04627-89.37512
Fisher CemeteryNoneNone
Fowlkes CemeteryNoneNone
Gauldin Cemetery36.0759-89.28479
Hicks Cemetery36.03784-89.47979
Hodge Cemetery35.98368-89.35312
Holly Spring Cemetery35.96229-89.3684
Hopewell Cemetery36.11256-89.38118
Hurricane Hill Cemetery36.09617-89.36923
Jenkins Cemetery36.05951-89.42062
Jones Cemetery35.95534-89.27451
Jones Cemetery36.18895-89.1584
King Cemetery35.9809-89.39701
Light Cemetery36.0509-89.44673
McCorkle Cemetery36.12645-89.19117
McCoy Cemetery35.95368-89.38284
Memorial Park Cemetery36.03642-89.3582
Miller Chapel Cemetery35.93868-89.31645
Mount Carmel Cemetery36.12923-89.18423
Mount Pisgah Cemetery35.91618-89.29006
Murray CemeteryNoneNone
Nash Cemetery35.92507-89.28201
Neely Chapel Cemetery36.10451-89.45673
New Bethel Cemetery36.03868-89.44673
Newbern Cemetery36.10617-89.27645
Oak Grove Cemetery36.10784-89.42951
Palestine Cemetery35.91812-89.3534
Peel Cemetery36.0859-89.48535
Pettus CemeteryNoneNone
Pierce Cemetery36.03043-89.30041
Pierce Cemetery36.19978-89.2034
Pleasant Hill Cemetery36.04645-89.48368
Poplar Cemetery36.12006-89.25062
Porter CemeteryNoneNone
Rehoboth Cemetery36.03062-89.25201
Reynolds Cemetery36.01395-89.30701
RoEllen Cemetery36.02812-89.27951
Saint Peter Cemetery35.96173-89.25173
Self Cemetery36.06868-89.26506
Shaw Cemetery36.04701-89.36173
Shaw Cemetery36.04367-89.18701
Shelton Cemetery35.94145-89.32784
Sorrell Chapel Cemetery35.97757-89.34562
Viar Cemetery36.01034-89.31729
Walker Cemetery35.95812-89.29145
Walker Cemetery36.04395-89.3009
Williams Chapel Cemetery35.94729-89.32229
Wright Cemetery36.13534-89.35118
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Michell35.95424-89.63619

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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