THE BEDFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Nashville Basin setting.
Bedford County has 473.6 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Bedford County: Inner Nashville Basin, Outer Nashville Basin, Eastern Highland Rim.
Open hills, irregular plains and tablelands are developed on limestone and other sedimentary rocks. Oak-hickory woodland, local prairie and cedar-glade settings contribute to this diverse inland plateau.
Regional context: Interior Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bedford County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Inner Nashville Basin57.6%
- Outer Nashville Basin42%
- Eastern Highland Rim0.3%
Finding your parcel within Bedford County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bedford County, including Shelbyville, Unionville, Wartrace. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bedford County by land and water
The Census records 1.15 square miles of water within Bedford County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Bedford County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bedford County has 24.2 times the land area of nearby Shelbyville city (19.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coffee County, Lincoln County, Marshall County, Moore County, Rutherford County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

