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White County

county in Tennessee, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_tennessee Q501563

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Tennessee
Inception
September 11, 1806[13]
Official website
whitecountytn.gov[15]
Native label
White County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 35.930°, -85.450°[14]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Tennessee[2]
Shares border with
Putnam County, Cumberland County, Van Buren County, Warren County, DeKalb County[5][6][7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
+379
Population
27k (26k–27k, n=7)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
More facts +10
Capital
Sparta[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Sparta[12]
Different from
White County, White County, White County, White County
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Tennessee/White County
NCI Thesaurus ID
C110208
Named after
John White, James White[10][11]
Number of households
+10219
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/White County, Tennessee
Per capita income
+23820
Water as percent of area
+0.7
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 27
VIAF cluster ID
132536660
Library of Congress authority ID
n81117319
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
White-county-courthouse-tn2.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
20679
Ballotpedia ID
White_County,_Tennessee
FIPS 6-4 ID
47185
Freebase ID
/m/0mss1
GADM ID
USA.43.93_1
GNIS Feature ID
1639800
GeoNames ID
4667226
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2001929
HASC
US.TN.WH
Show all 27 identifiers +15
INaturalist place ID
2562
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.47185
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007557295605171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00150988
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2793534
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1848225
Our Campaigns container ID
5225
Taxonomicon ID
1807793
Tennessee Encyclopedia ID
white-county
Topic's main category
Category:White County, Tennessee
UMLS CUI
C3813629
Who's on First ID
102086369
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"WhiteCounty", "Tennessee", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcGkKWK3cTGh3JFFkyrv3
Yale LUX ID
place/530412cd-2b2c-4e22-8b69-eff375d159c3
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 2 statements · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Elevation above sea levelP2044
295 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 5
Cumberland County, Putnam County, Van Buren County, Warren County, DeKalb County
← Shares border with 5
Cumberland County, Putnam County, Van Buren County, Warren County, DeKalb County
Different from 4
White County, White County, White County, White County
← Different from 4
White County, White County, White County, White County
Contained subdivisions 3
Sparta, Doyle, Quebeck
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from White County, Tennessee, Category:Populated places in White County, Tennessee
Capital 1
Sparta
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from White County, Tennessee
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Sparta
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Tennessee
Located in time zone 1
Central Time Zone
People born here 1
Earl Webb
Topic's main category 1
Category:White County, Tennessee
← Capital of 1
Sparta
← Category's main topic 1
Category:White County, Tennessee
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Tennessee
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Summary

White County is a county of Tennessee[1].

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Physical Characteristics

White County covers an area of {'amount': '+379'}[23].

History and Context

Things named after include John White[10], a soldier[24], 1751–1846[25] and James White[11], a politician[26], 1747–1821[27], of United States[28].

Related Entities

Tennessee United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  5. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/White County, Tenne
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/White County, Tennessee.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidenti"
  2. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3813629
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00150988
    Taxonomicon ID → 1807793
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31546|batch #31546]]"
  3. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → county of Tennessee
    Official website → http://whitecountytn.gov/
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Sparta
    Instance of → —
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ NCI Thesaurus ID: C110208, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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