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Carter

Carter County is a county located in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,356. Its county seat is . The county is named in honor of Landon Carter, an early settler active in the "Lost State of Franklin" 1784-1788 secession from the State of North Carolina.
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  • Type: County with 56,400 residents
  • Description: county in Tennessee, United States
  • Also known as: “Carter County”, “Carter County, Tennessee”, and “Carter County, TN”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Watauga Dam.

Dam
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is a hydroelectric and flood control dam on the in Carter County, in the U.S. state of . It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the 1940s as part of efforts to control flooding in the watershed.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hampton and Fish Springs.

Village
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is an unincorporated community and Census-designated place in Carter County, , United States. Located a few miles southeast of and northwest of , is surrounded on all sides by the .

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in Carter County, Tennessee. is located on the south shore of , along US Route 321 and Tennessee State Route 67 east of .

Carter

Latitude
36.2841° or 36° 17′ 3″ north
Longitude
-82.1195° or 82° 7′ 10″ west
Population
56,400
Elevation
2,238 feet (682 metres)
Open location code
868V7VMJ+J6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316993998
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4611599
Wiki­data ID
Q494990
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Carter” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Carter County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كارتر”
  • Armenian: “Քարտեր շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Carter”
  • Basque: “Carter konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Carter County, Tennessee”
  • Bavarian: “Carter County”
  • Belarusian: “Картэр”
  • Bishnupriya: “চার্টার কাউন্টি, টেনেসি”
  • Bishnupriya: “চার্টার কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Картър”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Carter”
  • Cebuano: “Carter County”
  • Chechen: “Картер (гуо, Теннесси)”
  • Chechen: “Картер”
  • Chinese: “Carter Kūn”
  • Chinese: “卡特县”
  • Chinese: “卡特縣”
  • Chinese: “卡特郡”
  • Dutch: “Carter County”
  • Finnish: “Carterin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Carter”
  • French: “Comté de Carter”
  • Georgian: “კარტერის ოლქი”
  • German: “Carter County”
  • Gilaki: “کارتر ٚ شأرستان (تنسي)”
  • Gilaki: “کارتر ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Κάρτερ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קרטר”
  • Hungarian: “Carter megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Carter, Tennessee”
  • Irish: “Contae Carter”
  • Italian: “contea di Carter”
  • Italian: “Contea di Carter”
  • Japanese: “カーター郡”
  • Korean: “카터군”
  • Latin: “Carter Comitatus”
  • Low German: “Carter County”
  • Mazanderani: “کارتر شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Carter Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Carter Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carter County i Tennessee”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carter County”
  • Norwegian: “Carter County”
  • Ossetian: “Картер (зылд, Теннесси)”
  • Ossetian: “Картер”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کارتر، تنسی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کارتر”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Carter”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Carter”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Carter, Tennessee”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Carter”
  • Russian: “Картер”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Carter”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Carter County”
  • Serbian: “Carter County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Картер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carter County, Tennessee”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carter County”
  • Slovenian: “Carter County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Carter”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Carter (Tennessee)”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Carter”
  • Swedish: “Carter County, Tennessee”
  • Swedish: “Carter County”
  • Tatar: “Картер (округ, Теннесси)”
  • Tatar: “Картер”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, Tenn.”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, Tennessee”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, TN”
  • Turkish: “Carter County”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, Tenn.”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, Tennessee”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, TN”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Картер”
  • Urdu: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی، ٹینیسی”
  • Urdu: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Carter”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Carter, Tennessee”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Carter”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Carter, Tennessee”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Carter”
  • Welsh: “Carter County, Tennessee”
  • Welsh: “Carter County”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی، ٹینیسی”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی”

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