553 Square miles

Franklin County is situated in south central Tennessee on the Alabama Tennessee border. For most of its residents, Huntsville, Alabama lies 22 miles to the south west of our county border, Chattanooga some 65 miles to the east, Nashville is about 80 miles to the north west, Atlanta, Georgia is 160 miles, Birmingham, Alabama is 110 miles, Memphis, TN is 230 miles and Lexington, Kentucky is 290 miles.

Cities in Franklin County are Winchester (County Seat), Decherd, Estill Springs, Cowan, Huntland, Tullahoma, Monteagle, and the Domain of the University Of the South Sewanee.

Average annual temperature 58.4 degrees
Franklin County's population is approximately 41,000
Franklin County has (2) airports, (15) Fire departments , ( 9) Elementary schools, (3) Middle/Jr.High schools, (2) Senior High Schools, ( 3) Private Parochial Schools, (2)Vo-techs, (1) College, (3) Libraries, ( 1)Universtiy, ( 1) University of Tennessee Space Institute , ( 5) Golf Courses, ( 1) State Park, (2) Swimming Pools (public), ( 1) Country Club, ( 2) Theaters, (5) Hotel/Motels, (31) Restaurants, (23) Boat Launching Ramps, ( 2) Golf Driving Ranges, (1) Beach, ( 2) Hospitals, ( 2) Clinics , (42) Doctors, ( 11) Dentist, (2) Nursing Homes, ( 63) Manufacturing Plants, (2) Lakes.
The Franklin County Sheriff's Department and Correctional Facility is a state of the art facility utilizing computerized state of the art technology .The jail can house 140 inmates from Federal, State and local agencies. The facility also has the capabilities to be add another 66 inmates utilizing a pre-built pod system that comes pre-wired and can be set into place minimizing construction time.

We also have a state of the art communications facility. It is equipped with a Computer Aided Dispatch Computer System, Tennessee Information Enforcement Computer System, Racal digital multi-channel recording system, National Center for Missing and Exploited Childrens locater system and Motorola multi-channel consoles. All this is housed at the Emergency Management under ground bunker facility near the Sheriff's Department.

AEDC is a state of the art test facility located on 40,000 acres at Arnold Air Force Base in Franklin and Coffee Counties. AEDC is an integral part of the Air Force Material Command. AEDC researches, develops, tests and acquires weapons for the U.S. military and sustains those systems through their life cycles. President Harry Truman dedicated Arnold Engineering Development Center on June 5th,1951. Since then, AEDC has contributed to the development of nearly every national aerospace program. The center operates 53 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket motor and turbine engine test cells, space environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges and other specialized units.

Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corporation U.S.A. is located in Decherd, Tennessee. Nissan produces power trains for their North American products to include the Sentra, Altima and the Quest. They are currently expanding from their present 235,000 square feet, to approximately 1 million square feet .