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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“I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,—if ten honest men only,—ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)