Blount County is a U.S. county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its population was 105,823 at the United States Census, 2000. The 2006 Census Estimate placed the population at 118,186. The county seat is at Maryville, which is also the county's largest city.
It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
What is today Blount County was for many thousands of years Indian territory, passed down to the Cherokee tri...
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Blount County is a U.S. county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its population was 105,823 at the United States Census, 2000. The 2006 Census Estimate placed the population at 118,186. The county seat is at Maryville, which is also the county's largest city.
It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
What is today Blount County was for many thousands of years Indian territory, passed down to the Cherokee tribe that claimed the land upon the arrival of white settlers in the late 18th century. Shortly thereafter, On July 11, 1795, Blount County became the tenth county established in Tennessee, when the Territorial Legislature voted to split adjacent Knox and Jefferson counties. The new county was named for the governor of the state of Tennessee, William Blount, and its county seat, Maryville, was named for his wife Mary Grainger Blount. This establishment, however, did little to settle the differences between white immigrants and Cherokee natives,...
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