[2] The constitutional amendment to create the county was proposed July 7, 1914, and ratified November 3, 1914.

It is named after Augustus Bacon, a former United States senator from Georgia.

In the 2020 United States census, there were 11,140 people, 3,874 households, and 2,706 families residing in the county, up from 10,103 in 2000.

[17] Religiously, as of 2020, the Association of Religion Data Archives determined the Southern Baptist Convention was the county's largest religious group, being within the Bible Belt.

[18] The Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) was the second-largest Christian denomination in the county, followed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and National Association of Free Will Baptists.