Formed December 9, 1857 (84th county)
Sequatchie County (15,829), Dunlap (5,357)
The white columns stand out on the 1911 red brick Classical Revival facility on Cherry Street between Main and Spring streets. United States Highway 127 is three blocks west of the site. W. K. Brown & Brother are the architects. The building has been enlarged. A Justice Center was added in 2000. The courthouse has veterans’ memorials in a park setting. The county was created on December 9, 1857 from parts of Hamilton, Marion, and Warren counties as the 84th county with Dunlap as the only county seat. The county is named for a Native American chief. Dunlap is named for settler James Dunlap.
Sequatchie County government consists of a sheriff, a County Executive, and 16 Commissioners. Three Circuit Court Judges, One Chancery Court Judge, One General Court Judge, and One Juvenile Court Judge serve Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Franklin, Grundy, Marion, and Rhea counties. The county is in the southeast part of Tennessee. Chattanooga, Tennessee is directly south and Nashville, Tennessee is northwest of the county. The county center is in Dunlap 1.8 miles South of the city center. The county is surrounded clockwise by Van Buren, Bledsoe, Hamilton, Marion, Grundy, and Warren counties.
The area of the county is 266 square miles. It is 81 out of 95 in the state. It ranks 77 out of 95 in population in the state. It has a density of 59.5 persons per square mile making it 58 out of 95 in the state. Sequatchie County has 33.8% of its population in its incorporated areas. United States Highway 127 enters the county from the northeast, Bledsoe County, and exits to the southeast, Hamilton County. The county resembles a chair tilting toward the southwest. Dunlap is located near the center of the county. Dunlap is the county seat and the largest city since it is the only incorporated city. It is 33.8% of the county population. The county is pronounced SE-KWA-CHEE. This county is in the Chattanooga Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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