United States Counties where selling of Alcohol is completely prohibited
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Can someone explain Arkansas lol? Seems like half the state is dry there
I just looked it up. Arkansas ranks 49th in alcohol consumption but 7th in DUI’s.
Lightweights.
1/2 s/
The one in South Dakota is I think due to being an Indian Reservation. I think I remember a story about a gas station on the border with Nebraska that sells the most alcohol of any gas station in the state.
That’s freedom.
I thought alaska had dry counties
This map is outdated. There are only two dry counties in Tennessee.
Al-Kansas?
Amazing how easy it is to spot Jack
Daniels in Lynchburg, TN.
Wow. Arkansas totally a bummer, man.
Funny how the state with the second most dry counties, Kentucky, is the epicenter of bourbon production.
Reminder that Jack Daniels is made in a dry county
I expected Utah to have some red .
I think there’s some spots missing out west.
Reservations are usually dry
Someone should tell them the prohobition has ended
Land of the Free
It’s just so odd the first answer is religion. I know how Prohibition came to be, but the Bible says Jesus turned water into wine (probably because the water wasn’t safe to drink!), so why there are anti-alcohol people in the Bible Belt makes no sense to me.
The ones in Texas have a loophole where you can buy a membership card for a few bucks and then can order drinks.
None in Utah?
McLean County in KY is damp as of this November, with alcohol sales being aloud in the 3 communities only
This is the way a good amount of rural KY counties are. Sales only inside of towns and not in rural shops/gas stations
There’s probably some kind of Footloose story behind most of these counties, except they banned the thing that was *actually* responsible, rather than banning dancing.
Fun fact: some of the Kentucky counties that produce bourbon (woodford reserve for example) are in fact still dry.
TIL Meiga County, TN is dry. You wouldn’t expect that with the amount of Natty Light in the ditches up there.
As someone who used to drink heavily, I don’t support prohibition, but I’ve also seen so many people mess up their lives because they couldn’t control their alcohol intake. Â
I don’t agree with prohibition, but I get why some cultures do what they can to prevent it from entering their societies.Â
That’s why I always see high speed chase videos from Arkansas. Must be trying to find a wet county
Fun fact, one of the counties in Tennessee that’s banned, is the Lynchburg. It’s where Jack Daniel’s is made.
Fun fact: there used to be a lot more, but they’ve been shrinking over the last few decades.
Turns out dry counties leads to more drunk driving b/c people leave, drink, then drive back
What’s funny is that little county in the south central part of Tennessee is home to Jack Daniel’s
Wait, people constantly complain about Utah but this map makes me think they’re complaining about the wrong state…
I’m from Arkansas originally- FWIW, that map is probably ~10 years old. A lot of counties have voted to become wet in that time, I can definitely pick out st least 3 that I can see that I know have recently become no longer dry.
But yeah- growing up in a dry county was just normal. Didn’t realize how different it was, and seeing this map is eye opening.
My aunt in Arkansas lives in one. They all make “moonshine” plus it’s like 10 mins to the Oklahoma border where they buy alcohol. It seems like they drink more than most country’s to be honest.
Fun fact about Gatlinburg Tennessee – dry county, but the jack Daniels distillery found a loophole that allows them to sell “bottles” that happen to be filled with Jack.