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Union County, Tennessee

<p><b>Union County</b> is a <a href="/en/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)" class="wl">county</a> located in the <a href="/en/U.S._state" title="U.S. state" class="wl">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/en/Tennessee" title="Tennessee" class="wl">Tennessee</a>. As of the <a href="/en/2020_United_States_Census" title="2020 United States Census" class="mw-redirect wl">2020 census</a>, its population was 19,802.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span> Its <a href="/en/County_seat" title="County seat" class="wl">county seat</a> is <a href="/en/Maynardville,_Tennessee" title="Maynardville, Tennessee" class="wl">Maynardville</a>.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-GR6_3-0"><a href="#cite_note-GR6-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[3]</span></a></span> Union County is included in the <a href="/en/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee" class="wl">Knoxville</a> <a href="/en/Knoxville_metropolitan_area" title="Knoxville metropolitan area" class="wl">metropolitan statistical area</a>.</p>

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<div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt5">County in Tennessee</div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1043192559" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement{width:23em;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:1.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement td,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement th{border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0.4em 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedtoprow .infobox-full-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedtoprow .infobox-header,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedtoprow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedtoprow .infobox-label,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedtoprow .infobox-below{border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0.4em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedrow .infobox-full-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedrow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedrow .infobox-label{border:0;padding:0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedbottomrow .infobox-full-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedbottomrow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedbottomrow .infobox-label{border-top:0;border-bottom:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .maptable{border:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-header,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-below{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn"><b>Quick facts: Union County, Country, State, Founded, Named ...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Union County</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/en/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)" class="wl">County</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span><a href="/en/File:Union-County-Courthouse-tn2.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="Union County Courthouse in Maynardville" data-hash="File:Union-County-Courthouse-tn2.jpg"><img loading="lazy"alt="Union County Courthouse in Maynardville" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Union-County-Courthouse-tn2.jpg/300px-Union-County-Courthouse-tn2.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="3359" data-file-height="2515" data-file-type="bitmap" height="225" width="300" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Union-County-Courthouse-tn2.jpg/450px-Union-County-Courthouse-tn2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Union-County-Courthouse-tn2.jpg/600px-Union-County-Courthouse-tn2.jpg 2x"></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Union County Courthouse in <a href="/en/Maynardville,_Tennessee" title="Maynardville, Tennessee" class="wl">Maynardville</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols{text-align:center;display:table;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-row{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cellt{display:table-cell;vertical-align:top}</style>
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<div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span class="mw-image-border"><a href="/en/File:Flag_of_Union_County,_TN.gif" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="Flag of Union County" data-hash="File:Flag_of_Union_County,_TN.gif"><img loading="lazy"alt="Flag of Union County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/58/Flag_of_Union_County%2C_TN.gif/100px-Flag_of_Union_County%2C_TN.gif" decoding="async" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="216" data-file-type="bitmap" height="60" width="100" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/58/Flag_of_Union_County%2C_TN.gif/150px-Flag_of_Union_County%2C_TN.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/58/Flag_of_Union_County%2C_TN.gif/200px-Flag_of_Union_County%2C_TN.gif 2x"></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Flag</div></div><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span><a href="/en/File:UnionCoTNLogo.png" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="Official logo of Union County" data-hash="File:UnionCoTNLogo.png"><img loading="lazy"alt="Official logo of Union County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/UnionCoTNLogo.png/100px-UnionCoTNLogo.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="823" data-file-height="823" data-file-type="bitmap" height="100" width="100" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/UnionCoTNLogo.png/150px-UnionCoTNLogo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/UnionCoTNLogo.png/200px-UnionCoTNLogo.png 2x"></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"><span><a href="/en/File:Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Union_County.svg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="Location within the U.S. state of Tennessee" data-hash="File:Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Union_County.svg"><img loading="lazy"alt="Map of Tennessee highlighting Union County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Union_County.svg/300px-Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Union_County.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="7814" data-file-height="1916" data-file-type="drawing" height="74" width="300" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Union_County.svg/450px-Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Union_County.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Union_County.svg/600px-Map_of_Tennessee_highlighting_Union_County.svg.png 2x"></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Location within the U.S. state of <a href="/en/Tennessee" title="Tennessee" class="wl">Tennessee</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span><a href="/en/File:Tennessee_in_United_States.svg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="Tennessee's location within the U.S." data-hash="File:Tennessee_in_United_States.svg"><img loading="lazy"alt="Map of the United States highlighting Tennessee" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Tennessee_in_United_States.svg/300px-Tennessee_in_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1181" data-file-height="731" data-file-type="drawing" height="186" width="300" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Tennessee_in_United_States.svg/450px-Tennessee_in_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Tennessee_in_United_States.svg/600px-Tennessee_in_United_States.svg.png 2x"></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Tennessee's location within the <a href="/en/United_States" title="United States" class="wl">U.S.</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1073938472" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="mw:ExtLink" href="//geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Union_County,_Tennessee&amp;params=36.28_N_83.84_W_type:city" class="external text" target="_blank"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms"><span class="latitude">36°17′N</span> <span class="longitude">83°50′W</span></span></span></a></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"><span><img loading="lazy" alt="Flag_of_the_United_States.svg" 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" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" data-file-type="drawing" height="12" width="23" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x"></span></span><span>&nbsp;</span></span>United States</span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">State</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border"><span><img loading="lazy" alt="Flag_of_Tennessee.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Tennessee.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tennessee.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="300" data-file-type="drawing" height="14" width="23" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Tennessee.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tennessee.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Tennessee.svg/46px-Flag_of_Tennessee.svg.png 2x"></span></span><span>&nbsp;</span></span><a href="/en/Tennessee" title="Tennessee" class="wl">Tennessee</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">January 23, 1856</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Namesake" title="Namesake" class="wl">Named for</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Either its creation from parts of five other counties or its support for the <a href="/en/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)" class="wl">Union</a> during the Civil War<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-tehc_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-tehc-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/County_seat" title="County seat" class="wl">Seat</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Maynardville,_Tennessee" title="Maynardville, Tennessee" class="wl">Maynardville</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data">Maynardville</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"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Mayor</th><td class="infobox-data">Jason Bailey</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"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Total</th><td class="infobox-data">247<span>&nbsp;</span>sq<span>&nbsp;</span>mi (640<span>&nbsp;</span>km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Land</th><td class="infobox-data">224<span>&nbsp;</span>sq<span>&nbsp;</span>mi (580<span>&nbsp;</span>km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Water</th><td class="infobox-data">24<span>&nbsp;</span>sq<span>&nbsp;</span>mi (60<span>&nbsp;</span>km<sup>2</sup>) <span>&nbsp;</span>9.5%%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span></span>(<a href="/en/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census" class="wl">2020</a>)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Total</th><td class="infobox-data">19,802 <span><span><img loading="lazy"alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" data-file-type="drawing" height="11" width="11" 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"></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Density</th><td class="infobox-data">85/sq<span>&nbsp;</span>mi (33/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Time_zone" title="Time zone" class="wl">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/UTC−5" title="UTC−5" class="mw-redirect wl">UTC−5</a> (<a href="/en/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone" class="wl">Eastern</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Summer (<a href="/en/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time" class="wl">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/UTC−4" title="UTC−4" class="mw-redirect wl">UTC−4</a> (<a href="/en/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone" class="wl">EDT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/ZIP_Code" title="ZIP Code" class="wl">ZIP Codes</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">37721, 37779, 37807, 37866, 37705</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/North_American_Numbering_Plan" title="North American Numbering Plan" class="wl">Area code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/865_area_code" title="865 area code" class="mw-redirect wl">865</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Congressional district</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Tennessee's_3rd_congressional_district" title="Tennessee's 3rd congressional district" class="wl">3rd</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="http://www.unioncountytn.com" class="external text" target="_blank">www<wbr>.unioncountytn<wbr>.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>



Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, its population was 19,802. Union County is included in the Knoxville metropolitan statistical area. 