THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cumberland Plateau setting.
Cumberland County has 681.3 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Cumberland County: Cumberland Plateau, Plateau Escarpment, Sequatchie Valley.
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
Cumberland County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cumberland Plateau96.6%
- Plateau Escarpment3%
- Sequatchie Valley0.4%
Finding your parcel within Cumberland County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cumberland County, including Fairfield Glade, Crossville, Crab Orchard. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cumberland County by land and water
The Census records 3.51 square miles of water within Cumberland County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Cumberland County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cumberland County has 33.1 times the land area of nearby Crossville city (20.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bledsoe County, Fentress County, Morgan County, Putnam County, Rhea County, Roane County, Van Buren County, White County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

