The county was named for John Montgomery, a settler who founded the city of Clarksville, Tennessee, in Montgomery County. The county was initially organized as Tennessee County, North Carolina, but its name was changed in 1796, the year that Tennessee was admitted as a state, to reduce confusion. In the same year, much of the eastern portion of the county was removed from its jurisdiction and incorporated with territory taken from Sumner County to form Robertson County. Subsequent acts of the Tennessee General Assembly further reduced the area of the county; it obtained its current size and boundaries in 1871. Montgomery County was the site of several saltpeter mines. Saltpeter is the main ingredient of gunpowder and was obtained by leaching the earth from several local caves. Bellamy Cave, located near Stringtown, contains the remains of two dozen saltpeter leaching vats and was apparently a large operation. Cooper Creek Cave also shows evidence of extensive mining and contains the remains of “many saltpeter hoppers” (Barr, 1961). Dunbar Cave is also reported to have been mined for saltpeter during the Mexican War, but commercial development has erased any evidence of this mining. In all likelihood, Bellamy Cave and Cooper Creek Cave were mined during the War of 1812. Little mining in this area is likely to have occurred during the Civil War, because this part of Tennessee fell under Federal control very early in the war. (Larry E. Matthews, “Dunbar Cave: The Showplace of the South”, 2011.
As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 134,768 people, 48,330 households, and 35,957 families residing in the county. The population density was 250 people per square mile (96/km²). There were 52,167 housing units at an average density of 97 per square mile (37/km²).
Our firm has handled personal injury victims in Montgomery County for many years. Roland Mumford often visited Montgomery County when visiting his father and going to visit Fort Campbell with dreams of joining the army. He has fond memories of the county. Our firm has represented numerous automobile accidents, slip and falls, workers compensation claims, trucking accidents, nursing home abuse, and medical malpractice actions in Montgomery County. If you know anybody that has been in a car crash or suffered a personal injury in Montgomery County or Clarksville, please have them call our office.
From 2006 to 2010, Montgomery County ranked 23rd in the state (out of 95 counties) in the overall crash rate. In the fatal crash category, Montgomery County was 81st and the alcohol-impaired fatality rate was 67. For non-fatal injury crashes, it was 7th and the alcohol-impaired crash rate was 14. The speeding crash rate was 60. For the subcategory of motorcycle crashes, Montgomery County was 18th in the State. Of 4,156 crashes in 2010, 179 were alcohol-related and 168 were speed-related. In 2010, there were 20,860 drivers in the age range of 15-24 with 2,204 of those drivers being involved in car crashes.
A copy of the Tennessee Department of Safety’s crash statistics can be reviewed here.
Montgomery County is situated in the 19th Judicial District of Tennessee, which also includes Robertson County. The judges and chancellors in Montgomery County are presided over by:
A copy of the Local Rules for Montgomery County Chancery Court can be found here, and the Local Rules for the Montgomery County Circuit Court can be found here.
Click on the following links to learn more about Wilson County and its communities:
Clarksville: http://www.cityofclarksville.com/
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