THE MONTEAGLE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cumberland Plateau setting.
Monteagle town has 9.04 square miles of land in Franklin County, Grundy County, Marion 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
One place name. 3 county geographies.
Monteagle intersects 3 county geographies: Franklin County, Grundy County, Marion County. A Monteagle mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Monteagle by land and water
The Census records 0.11 square miles of water within Monteagle, or 1.2% of its total area. It is 0.9 percentage points lower than the 2.1% recorded for Tennessee. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Monteagle town has 2.3 times the land area of nearby Sewanee CDP (3.89 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

