THE HAMBLEN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills setting.
Hamblen County has 161.2 square miles of land in Tennessee. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Hamblen County: Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Shale Valleys, Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs, among others.
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
Hamblen County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills75.8%
- Southern Shale Valleys23.2%
- Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs0.7%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges0.4%
Finding your parcel within Hamblen County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hamblen County, including Morristown, White Pine, Russellville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hamblen County by land and water
The Census records 14.6 square miles of water within Hamblen County, or 8.3% of its total area. That share is close to Hamblen County’s 8.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hamblen County has 5.7 times the land area of nearby Morristown city (28.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cocke County, Grainger County, Greene County, Hawkins County, Jefferson County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

