THE LINCOLN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Outer Nashville Basin setting.
Lincoln County has 570.3 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Lincoln County: Outer Nashville Basin, Eastern Highland Rim, Plateau Escarpment.
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.
Regional context: Interior Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Lincoln County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Outer Nashville Basin71%
- Eastern Highland Rim28.6%
- Plateau Escarpment0.4%
Southwestern Appalachians in Lincoln County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Lincoln County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lincoln County, including Fayetteville, Blanche, Park City. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lincoln County by land and water
The Census records 0.38 square miles of water within Lincoln County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Lincoln County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lincoln County has 62.8 times the land area of nearby Fayetteville city (9.09 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bedford County, Franklin County, Giles County, Marshall County, Moore County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

