THE GRUNDY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cumberland Plateau setting.
Grundy County has 360.4 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Grundy 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
Grundy County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cumberland Plateau67.2%
- Plateau Escarpment23.8%
- Eastern Highland Rim9%
Interior Plateau in Grundy 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 Grundy County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Grundy County, including Altamont, Pelham, Gruetli-Laager. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Grundy County by land and water
The Census records 0.68 square miles of water within Grundy County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Grundy County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Grundy County has 18.2 times the land area of nearby Altamont town (19.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coffee County, Franklin County, Marion County, Sequatchie County, Warren County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

