THE BRADLEY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Shale Valleys setting.
Bradley County has 328.8 square miles of land in Tennessee. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Bradley County: Southern Shale Valleys, Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Sandstone Ridges, among others.
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bradley County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Shale Valleys61.1%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills32.3%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges3.8%
- Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs2.8%
Finding your parcel within Bradley County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bradley County, including Cleveland, South Cleveland, Wildwood Lake. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bradley County by land and water
The Census records 2.69 square miles of water within Bradley County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Bradley County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bradley County has 267.1 times the land area of nearby East Cleveland CDP (1.23 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hamilton County, McMinn County, Meigs County, Polk County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

