CENSUS RECORDS 

• Census on microfilm for Sevier County:  1830-1880, 1900-1930
• State-wide census index:  1830-1880
• State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
• Sevier County census records in book form:  *1830,  1840,  *1850,  *1880

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• Early Sevier County VIPS : A Biographical Sketch of Samuel Wear, Isaac Thomas, Spencer Clack, Samuel Newell [and] Joshua Gist  (Waters,  1975)
• *Gentle Winds of Change : A History of Sevier County, Tennessee, 1900-1930 (Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1986)
• Historic Architecture of Sevier County, Tennessee (Jones, 1997)
• Historic Sites in Blount, Cocke, Monroe and Sevier Counties (Carberry, 1973)
• History of Sevier County  (Matthews,  1960)
• In the Shadow of the Smokies : Sevier County, Tennessee Cemeteries (Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993)
• Interment of the White Caps (Mangrum, 1973)
• Lost Communities of Sevier County, Tennessee : Greenbrier (Wear, Alexander & Teague, 1985)
• Mountain Home : The Walker family Farmstead, Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Madden & Jones, 1977)
• Natural History of Mount Le Conte  (Wise & Peterson,  1998)
• Reunion at the River : Official History of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, 1783-1930 (Linn, 1986)
• *Sevier County, Tennessee and its Heritage (1994)
• *White-caps : A History of the Organization in Sevier County (Crozier, 1899)

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

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• *1880 Census, Sevier County, Tennessee (Sistler, 1996)
• *Atchley Funeral Home Records, Sevierville, Tennessee [vols. 1-2, 1955-1973; vols. 3-4, 1974-1999] (Fox, 2002)
• *Cemetery Inscriptions in the Smoky Mountain Area, Sevier County, Tennessee (Reagan, 1984)
• Enumeration of Male Inhabitants, 1891 Anderson, Blount, Knox, Sevier Counties, Tenn (Reid, 1989)
• Population Schedule of the United States Census of 1840 for Sevier County, Tennessee (Templin & Wells, 1981)
• *Population Schedule of the United States Census of 1850 (Seventh Census) for Sevier County, Tennessee (Creekmore & McMahon, 1953)
• Sevier County, Tennessee, 1830-1840 Federal Censuses; 1814, 1837, 1838 Tax Lists (Fox, 2004)
• Sevier County, Tennessee Early Surveyor Books, 1824-1902 (Fox, 2002)
• Sevier County, Tennessee, Marriage Record, Book 1, 1856-1873 (Reagan, 1982)
• Sevier County, Tennessee, Marriage Records no.1, 1856-1873 (WPA, 1938)
• *Sevier County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1920-1934 (Parton & Fox, 1998)
• *Sevier County, Tennessee : Population Schedule of the United States Census of 1830 (Fifth Census) for Sevier County, Tennessee (Creekmore & McMahon, 1956)
• *Sevier County, Tennessee, State of Tennessee Land Grants, 1806-1900 (Fox, 2002)
• *Sevier County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1914 through 1925 (Wiefering, 1993)
• *Sevier County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1926 through 1930 (Wiefering, 1999)
• *Sevier County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1931 through 1935 (Wiefering, 1999)
• *Sevier County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1936 through 1941 (Wiefering, 1999)
• *Sevier County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1942 through 1946 (Wiefering, 1999)
• Smoky Mountain Clans  [3 vols.]  (Reagan,  1978)
• Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records : Counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier (WPA, 1938)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

An inventory of microfilmed Sevier County records is available for purchase from the Restoration & Reproduction section of TSLA.  Individual reels of microfilm may also be purchased.  

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1856
• wills from 1849
• deed index from 1846
• chancery court minutes from 1854
• county court minutes from 1856
• circuit court minutes from 1850
• tax books from 1864

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

• Deed Index -- 1846-1911 (#29, 1 reel)
• Inventories -- 1856-1866 (#27, 1 reel)
• Marriages -- 1856-1883 (#21, 1 reel)
• Wills -- 1849-1922 (#27, 1 reel)
• WPA Records, Sevier County  (Record Group #107, Roll 74,  1 reel)    Roll includes Marriage License Record No. 1 (1856-1873).

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Gatlinburg and Sevierville.  Scattered early issues are available from 1882, and a complete run begins in 1909.  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.

• History of Sevier County, 1876  (Microfilm Manuscript #1391,  1 reel)

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.