Shelby County is the name of nine counties in the United States of America, all named for Isaac Shelby of Kentucky. The Shelby County name gained fame in C.W. McCall's song "Classified". The largest county by population bearing the name is the one in Tennessee, which is also the largest in the state (Shelby County contains Memphis).
- Shelby County, Alabama
- Shelby County, Illinois, county seat: Shelbyville, Illinois
- Shelby County, Indiana, county seat: Shelbyville, Indiana
- Shelby County, Iowa
- Shelby County, Kentucky, county seat: Shelbyville, Kentucky
- Shelby County, Missouri, county seat: Shelbyville, Missouri
- Shelby County, Ohio
- Shelby County, Tennessee
- Shelby County, Texas
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Famous quotes containing the word county:
“Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)