THE FENTRESS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cumberland Plateau setting.
Fentress County has 498.6 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Fentress County: Cumberland Plateau, Plateau Escarpment, Eastern Highland Rim.
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
Fentress County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cumberland Plateau66.8%
- Plateau Escarpment26.8%
- Eastern Highland Rim6.5%
Interior Plateau in Fentress County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Fentress County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fentress County, including Grimsley, Clarkrange, Allardt. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fentress County by land and water
The Census records 0.33 square miles of water within Fentress County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Fentress County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fentress County has 132.3 times the land area of nearby Allardt city (3.77 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cumberland County, Morgan County, Overton County, Pickett County, Putnam County, Scott County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

