Unionville is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in

Bedford County, Tennessee Bedford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 50,237. Its county seat is Shelbyville. Bedford County comprises the Shelbyville, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also in ...

. Its population was 1,394 as of the 2020 census. Unionville has a

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with ZIP code 37180.

History

Unionville was

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ted in 1827, and named for the fact two rival settlements merged with the new name. A post office has been in operation at Unionville since 1837.

Education

Unionville contains three Bedford County public schools, the Community Elementary School (

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grade 5 Fifth grade (also 5th Grade or Grade 5) is the fifth or sixth year of formal or compulsory education. In the United States, this is mostly the last grade of primary school, but for some states, it could be the first year of middle school. Primary ...

), the Community Middle School (grades 6 to 8), and Community High School (grades 9 to 12).A Brief History of Community Middle School
Community Middle School website, accessed March 27, 2010

Notable person

The community was the birthplace of Tennessee governor

Jim Nance McCord Jim Nance McCord (March 17, 1879 – September 2, 1968) was an American journalist and politician who served as the 40th governor of Tennessee from 1945 to 1949, and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943 to 1945. He was ...

, born in 1879.Jim Nance McCord
, ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''

References

Census-designated places in Bedford County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee Census-designated places in Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Bedford County, Tennessee {{BedfordCountyTN-geo-stub