Hawkins County, Tennessee

Founding: 1787
Parent counties: Greene and Sullivan
Name origin: Benjamin Hawkins, North Carolina senator
Seat: Rogersville (1787–)
Land area: 487 square miles
Population (2020): 56,721
Population (historic): 6,563 (1800); 15,035 (1840); 15,837 (1870); 24,267 (1900); 24,117 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1800–1840; 1850s; 1870–1900; 1920–1950; 1960–2010
Subdivisions: Two cities; four towns; one CDP
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 2,000 (7.3%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 30.7%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 14.1%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 27.5%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 20.8%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $526
Average outbuilding value (1930): $335

Average farmhouse size (1940): 4.4 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 3,314
Average farm size (1920): 54.8 acres

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Rogersville

 
Name origin: Joseph Rogers, owner of the town site
Founding: 1789 (platting); 1792 (post office); 1903 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 4,671
Population (historic): 657 (1870); 1,153 (1890); 1,242 (1910); 1,590 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1870–1900; 1910–1980; 1990–2020
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 213 (10.4%)
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