THE MORGAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cumberland Plateau setting.
Morgan County has 522.2 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Morgan County: Cumberland Plateau, Dissected Appalachian Plateau, Plateau Escarpment.
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
Morgan County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cumberland Plateau82.1%
- Dissected Appalachian Plateau17.1%
- Plateau Escarpment0.8%
Central Appalachians in Morgan County
A rugged, deeply cut plateau of sandstone, shale and related rocks supports extensive forest. High hills and low mountains distinguish this Appalachian landscape from smoother neighboring regions.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Morgan County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Morgan County, including Coalfield, Harriman, Oliver Springs. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Morgan County by land and water
The Census records 0.32 square miles of water within Morgan County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Morgan County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Morgan County has 463.3 times the land area of nearby Wartburg city (1.13 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Anderson County, Cumberland County, Fentress County, Roane County, Scott County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

