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Loudon County


Updated:  January 4, 2007

Loudon County was formed in 1870 from
Blount, McMinn, Monore and Roane counties.

The county seat is Loudon.


 

CENSUS RECORDS 

  • Census on microfilm for Loudon County:  1880, 1900-1930
  • State-wide census index:  1880
  • State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
  • Loudon County census records in book form:  1880, 1910

 

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

  • A Place Called Greenback : An East Tennessee Town at the Turn of the Century, 1870-1917 (Best, 1993)
  • Beloved Landmarks of Loudon County, Tennessee (Daughters of the American Revolution, 1962)
  • Loudon County, We Call it Home (19??)
  • Remembering our Heritage : Townspeople do the "Impossible" : Scrap Book (Forkner, 1986)

Additional county and community histories can be found at the Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources:  Loudon CountyThe items in the bibliography may not all be available at TSLA.

 

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

  • 1880 Census, Loudon County, Tennessee (McConkey, 1987)
  • 1910 Loudon County, Tennessee, Census (Smallen, 1995)
  • Blount County, Tennessee Cemetery Records : Including Blount Section of Loudon and Monroe Counties, Tennessee (Little, 1980)
  • Cumberland Co., Tennessee, Fentress Co., Tennessee, Jackson Co., Tennessee, Loudon Co., Tennessee, Morgan Co., Tennessee, Overton Co. [1891 enumeration of male voters] (Reed, 1990)
  • Fort Loudoun Reservoir Cemeteries (Douthat, 1988)
  • Hawkins Mortuary and Mausoleum Death Records, 1949-1981, Lenoir City, Tennessee (Brown, 1982)
  • Loudon County, Tennessee, Tombstone Records (WPA, 1938)
  • Loudon County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1914 Through 1925 (Wiefering, 1993)
  • Marriage Records, Loudon County, Tennessee, 1870-1910 (Brown, 1973)
  • Roane & Loudon Counties, TN Polk City Directory (2006)

 

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

An inventory of microfilmed Loudon County records is available on our web site.  Individual reels of microfilm may also be purchased.  

Earliest records include:

  • marriages from 1870
  • wills from 1870
  • deed index from 1874
  • chancery court minutes from 1870
  • county court minutes from 1870
  • circuit court minutes from 1870
  • tax books from 1870

 

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

  • *WPA Records, Loudon County (Record Group #107, Roll 51, 1 reel) Roll includes Tombstone Records (undated).

 

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Lenoir City and Loudon.  Scattered early issues are available from 1852, and a complete run begins in 1954.  Microfilms are loaned to Tennessee libraries.  Individual reels may also be purchased.  An Inventory of Newspapers on Microfilm at TSLA is available on our web site.

 

SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS MATERIAL

 

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.


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