THE PICKETT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Highland Rim setting.
Pickett County has 163 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Pickett County: Eastern Highland Rim, Plateau Escarpment, Cumberland Plateau.
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
Pickett County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Eastern Highland Rim69.5%
- Plateau Escarpment20.1%
- Cumberland Plateau10.4%
Southwestern Appalachians in Pickett 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 Pickett County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pickett County, including Byrdstown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pickett County by land and water
The Census records 11.5 square miles of water within Pickett County, or 6.6% of its total area. That share is close to Pickett County’s 6.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pickett County has 109.5 times the land area of nearby Byrdstown town (1.49 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clay County, Fentress County, Overton County, Scott County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

