THE SEVIER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Metasedimentary Mountains setting.
Sevier County has 592.5 square miles of land in Tennessee. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Sevier County: Southern Metasedimentary Mountains, Southern Shale Valleys, Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, 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
Sevier County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Metasedimentary Mountains52.4%
- Southern Shale Valleys26.6%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills7.6%
- Southern Sedimentary Ridges5.9%
- High Mountains5%
Ridge and Valley in Sevier 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 Sevier County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sevier County, including Sevierville, Seymour, Pigeon Forge. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sevier County by land and water
The Census records 5.18 square miles of water within Sevier County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Sevier County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sevier County has 42.9 times the land area of nearby Pigeon Forge city (13.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Blount County, Cocke County, Jefferson County, Knox County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

