THE GRAINGER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills setting.
Grainger County has 280.6 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Grainger County: Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Sandstone Ridges, Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs.
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
Grainger County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills81.2%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges17.7%
- Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs1.1%
Finding your parcel within Grainger County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Grainger County, including Blaine, Bean Station, Rutledge. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Grainger County by land and water
The Census records 21.9 square miles of water within Grainger County, or 7.2% of its total area. That share is close to Grainger County’s 7.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Grainger County has 50.7 times the land area of nearby Rutledge town (5.53 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Claiborne County, Hamblen County, Hancock County, Hawkins County, Jefferson County, Knox County, Union County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

