THE CROSSVILLE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cumberland Plateau setting.
Crossville city has 20.6 square miles of land in Cumberland County. Its Census reference point is in Cumberland Plateau, within Southwestern Appalachians.
Open low mountains and plateau edges form a landscape of wooded uplands and deeper ravines. Escarpments mark the transition toward both the Ridge and Valley and the Interior Plateau.
Regional context: Southwestern Appalachians ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Crossville and Cumberland County
Crossville is associated with Cumberland County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Crossville by land and water
The Census records 0.42 square miles of water within Crossville, or 2% of its total area. It is 1.5 percentage points higher than the 0.5% recorded for Cumberland County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crossville city has 2.3 times the land area of nearby Lake Tansi CDP (8.83 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

