THE CANNON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Outer Nashville Basin setting.
Cannon County has 265.6 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Cannon County: Outer Nashville Basin, Eastern Highland Rim, Inner Nashville Basin.
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
Cannon County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Outer Nashville Basin62.1%
- Eastern Highland Rim28.3%
- Inner Nashville Basin9.6%
Finding your parcel within Cannon County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cannon County, including Woodbury, Auburntown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cannon County by land and water
The Census records 0.06 square miles of water within Cannon County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Cannon County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cannon County has 134.3 times the land area of nearby Woodbury town (1.98 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coffee County, DeKalb County, Rutherford County, Warren County, Wilson County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

