THE UNION COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills setting.
Union County has 223.6 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Union County: Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs, Southern Sandstone Ridges.
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.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Union County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills83.9%
- Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs15%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges1.1%
Finding your parcel within Union County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Union County, including Plainview, Maynardville, Luttrell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Union County by land and water
The Census records 23.6 square miles of water within Union County, or 9.5% of its total area. That share is close to Union County’s 9.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Union County has 41.5 times the land area of nearby Maynardville city (5.39 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Anderson County, Campbell County, Claiborne County, Grainger County, Knox County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

