THE HAWKINS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills setting.
Hawkins County has 487.1 square miles of land in Tennessee. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Hawkins County: Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Sandstone Ridges, Southern Shale Valleys, 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
Hawkins County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills46%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges24.9%
- Southern Shale Valleys20.6%
- Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs8.5%
Finding your parcel within Hawkins County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hawkins County, including Kingsport, Church Hill, Mount Carmel. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hawkins County by land and water
The Census records 12.6 square miles of water within Hawkins County, or 2.5% of its total area. That share is close to Hawkins County’s 2.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hawkins County has 85 times the land area of nearby Surgoinsville town (5.73 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Grainger County, Greene County, Hamblen County, Hancock County, Sullivan County, Washington County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.