THE WARREN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Highland Rim setting.
Warren County has 432.7 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Warren 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
Warren County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Eastern Highland Rim78%
- Plateau Escarpment17.4%
- Cumberland Plateau4.5%
Southwestern Appalachians in Warren 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 Warren County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Warren County, including McMinnville, Morrison, Centertown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Warren County by land and water
The Census records 1.36 square miles of water within Warren County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Warren County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Warren County has 39.1 times the land area of nearby McMinnville city (11.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cannon County, Coffee County, DeKalb County, Grundy County, Sequatchie County, Van Buren County, White County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

