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Lake County, Tennessee

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1870formed

7,005pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1993. Most listings are in or near Tiptonville.

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 Lake titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Caldwell-Hopson House	Tiptonville	Building	1993

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lake was formed in 1870 (1870-06-24) from Obion.

LAKE created from OBION.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lake County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,428	3,968	7,368	9,075	11,235	11,655	9,572	7,455	7,954	7,005

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

14 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Buckelew Cemetery	36.42284	-89.44618
Burrus Chapel Cemetery	36.33503	-89.44061
Citizen Cemetery	36.38089	-89.4709
Crocketts Cemetery	36.34589	-89.42785
Cronanville Cemetery	36.43367	-89.4784
Davis Chapel Cemetery	36.37016	-89.44668
Free Will Cemetery	36.41506	-89.45757
Horn Ridge Cemetery	36.23923	-89.49646
Keefe Cemetery	36.3345	-89.44062
Madie Cemetery	36.28201	-89.46174
Mooring Cemetery	36.31034	-89.51396
New Haven Cemetery	36.27617	-89.46979
Parks Cemetery	36.39534	-89.47535
Ridgely Cemetery	36.26228	-89.46979

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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