Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the state's largest both in terms of population and geographic area. Its county seat is Memphis.
Shelby County is part of the Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area, which comprises eight counties in the three states of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
Shelby County was named for Governor Isaac Shelby (1750–1826), of Kentucky.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the coun...
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Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the state's largest both in terms of population and geographic area. Its county seat is Memphis.
Shelby County is part of the Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area, which comprises eight counties in the three states of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
Shelby County was named for Governor Isaac Shelby (1750–1826), of Kentucky.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 784 square miles (2,030 km²), of which, 755 square miles (1,954 km²) of it is land and 29 square miles (75 km²) of it (3.71%) is water. The lowest point in the state of Tennessee is located on the Mississippi River in Shelby County (just outside the Memphis city limits), where it flows out of Tennessee and into Mississippi.
County government is headed by an elected county mayor and a thirteen-member county commission that is elected from five districts. The members of the county commission serve four-year terms. Other...
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