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Union County is located in East Tennessee, about 30 minutes north of Knoxville and is known for being the cradle of country music. Maynardville is the is the county seat of Union County. Union County has a population of 19,107 with 247 square miles and has several outlying towns as well including Luttrell, Plainview, and Sharps Chapel.
The Union county name derives from two possible sources. Dr. Robert H. White, Tennessee state historian from 1955 to 1970, believed that Union County was so named because it was a union of five segments of adjoining counties Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, and Knox Counties. Former Union County Schools Superintendent William H. Thomas suggested in 1961, however, that the name reflected the area’s support for the federal union in the political debates of the period of the county’s creation.