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Warren County, Tennessee

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
22historic places
—earliest paper
1807formed
40,953pop. 2020
40cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 22 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near McMinnville, Rock Island, Union.

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 Warren titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

16 of 22 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

22 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Black HouseMcMinnvilleBuilding1983
Cardwell MountainUnionSite1978
City CemeteryMcMinnvilleSite2002
FalconhurstMcMinnvilleBuilding1982
Faulkner, Clay, HouseMcMinnvilleBuilding1992
First Methodist ChurchMcMinnvilleBuilding2002
First Presbyterian ChurchMcMinnvilleBuilding1995
Great Falls Cotton MillRock IslandBuilding1982
Magness, William H. and Edgar, Community House and LibraryMcMinnvilleBuilding1993
Martin-Miller FarmRowland StationDistrict2005
McMinnville Hydroelectric StationMcMinnvilleStructure1990
My Grandfather's HouseMcMinnvilleBuilding1985
Myers MoundMcMinnvilleSite1978
Northcutt Plantation (Additional Documentation)McMinnvilleBuilding1975
OakhamMcMinnvilleBuilding1983
Philadelphia Church of ChristVervillaBuilding1988
Spring Street Service StationMcMinnvilleBuilding2001
Stone-Pennebaker HouseMcMinnvilleBuilding1988
US Post Office-MainMcMinnvilleBuilding1985
Walling, Edgar, HouseMcMinnvilleBuilding1996
Walling, Joseph Daniel, HouseMcMinnvilleBuilding1980
Webb HotelRock IslandBuilding2020

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Warren was formed in 1807 (1807-11-26) from White.

WARREN created from WHITE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Warren County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

41k23k5,7251810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5,72510,34810,80311,14714,07916,41017,30619,76422,27123,10232,65338,27640,953

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

40 cemeteries and 8 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 40 of 40 listed
NameLatLon
Bascom Cemetery35.5959-85.86886
Big Spring Cemetery35.68923-85.94832
Bonner Cemetery35.62702-85.79054
Bowling Green Cemetery35.73283-85.76077
Finger Chapel Cemetery35.64369-85.86296
Flatwood Cemetery35.77558-85.90635
Fountain Spring Cemetery35.65828-85.97514
French Cemetery35.67007-85.92693
Friendship Cemetery35.77093-85.62478
Fuston Cemetery35.7009-85.9522
Fuston Cemetery35.77087-85.79826
Garmon Family Cemetery35.72377-85.75764
Grange Hall Cemetery35.67979-85.88192
Harrington Cemetery35.71497-85.92259
Higgenbottom Cemetery35.66784-85.72859
Hills Creek Cemetery35.67845-85.79548
Holders Cemetery35.81562-85.85832
Hopewell Cemetery35.68479-85.81054
Hulett Cemetery35.65178-85.97587
Kirby Cemetery35.75089-85.85047
Macedonia Cemetery35.51522-85.81541
McGregor Cemetery35.66395-85.62386
Morrison Cemetery35.58909-85.91609
Mount Vernon Cemetery35.73923-85.63803
Mount View Cemetery35.69674-85.76554
Mount Zion Cemetery35.59451-85.65275
Mount Zion Cemetery35.57118-85.82137
New Rocky Cemetery35.73143-85.59798
O'Neal Cemetery35.77145-85.61664
Old Fellowship Cemetery35.63527-85.8896
Poor House Cemetery35.74701-85.87665
Rains Cemetery35.66868-85.95582
Riverside Cemetery35.67646-85.77304
Rock Island Cemetery35.79812-85.61636
Salem Cemetery35.75386-85.74952
Stroud Cemetery35.58788-85.89654
Viola Cemetery35.54885-85.86141
Webb Cemetery35.81757-85.76554
Whitlock Cemetery35.72661-85.93915
Youngblood Cemetery35.74418-85.94286
Historical populated places — 8 of 8
NameLatLon
Evanston35.81812-85.8736
Groves35.6709-85.66053
Hanlan35.57702-85.87859
Hillis35.72868-85.6222
Horseshoe Falls35.81312-85.6897
Magnum35.83701-85.85832
New35.68313-85.92304
Nicholson Springs35.66174-85.88415

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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