THE COFFEE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Highland Rim setting.
Coffee County has 429 square miles of land in Tennessee. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Coffee County: Eastern Highland Rim, Outer Nashville Basin, Plateau Escarpment, among others.
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
Coffee County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Eastern Highland Rim73.5%
- Outer Nashville Basin23.1%
- Plateau Escarpment2.9%
- Cumberland Plateau0.6%
Southwestern Appalachians in Coffee County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Coffee County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Coffee County, including Tullahoma, Manchester, Lakewood Park. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Coffee County by land and water
The Census records 5.59 square miles of water within Coffee County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Coffee County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Coffee County has 28 times the land area of nearby Manchester city (15.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bedford County, Cannon County, Franklin County, Grundy County, Moore County, Rutherford County, Warren County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

