THE BLEDSOE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cumberland Plateau setting.
Bledsoe County has 406.6 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Bledsoe County: Cumberland Plateau, Sequatchie Valley, Plateau Escarpment.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bledsoe County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cumberland Plateau63.8%
- Sequatchie Valley20.6%
- Plateau Escarpment15.6%
Finding your parcel within Bledsoe County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bledsoe County, including Pikeville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bledsoe County by land and water
The Census records 0.33 square miles of water within Bledsoe County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Bledsoe County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bledsoe County has 166.4 times the land area of nearby Pikeville city (2.44 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cumberland County, Hamilton County, Rhea County, Sequatchie County, Van Buren County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

