THE MONROE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Metasedimentary Mountains setting.
Monroe County has 635.8 square miles of land in Tennessee. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Monroe County: Southern Metasedimentary Mountains, Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs, among others.
Forested ridges, plateaus and high mountains extend through the Blue Ridge. Elevation, rainfall and sheltered coves create marked differences in forest communities across short distances.
Regional context: Blue Ridge ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Monroe County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Metasedimentary Mountains47.3%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills29%
- Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs13.3%
- Southern Shale Valleys5.2%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges3.2%
Ridge and Valley in Monroe County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Monroe County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Monroe County, including Sweetwater, Vonore, Madisonville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Monroe County by land and water
The Census records 16.8 square miles of water within Monroe County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Monroe County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Monroe County has 325.7 times the land area of nearby Tellico Plains town (1.95 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Blount County, Loudon County, McMinn County, Polk County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

