Counce, TN

Counce is an unincorporated community in Hardin County, Tennessee. Counce is located on Tennessee State Route 57 near the Mississippi border. The community is adjacent to the Tennessee River near the Pickwick Landing Dam. The short version is that Counce carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Counce: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Counce is the terminus of a CPKC, ex Kansas City Southern line which was originally the Corinth and Counce Railroad and later became part of the MidSouth Rail Corporation before Kansas City Southern took over MidSouth. Counce was named after the Counce families, who were the first families to inhabit the community.