Explore Brush Creek, Tennessee, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Brush Creek, Tennessee. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Tennessee or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Brush Creek.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Brush Creek |
| State | Tennessee (TN) |
| County | Smith County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.007284 |
| Longitude | -87.081394 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 37327, 37062, 38547 |
| Area Code | 615, 629, 423 |
| County Seat | Carthage |
Brush Creek carries the runoff of the central Tennessee plateau through a landscape defined by limestone shelves and the quiet encroachment of thickets. It lies 15.4 miles east-southeast of Wilson, TN (from Wilson, TN: bearing 102°T), and is situated 9.6 miles south-southwest of South Carthage. The terrain surrounding Brush Creek slopes into the low-slung geography of Fuller Hollow, where the earth holds moisture in the deep, clay-heavy soil and the light at dusk turns the color of weathered iron. Beyond the immediate fields, the horizon remains flat and broad, far removed from the high, jagged silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains that stand over a hundred miles to the east. The air here is often heavy with the scent of damp earth and cooling limestone, a stillness that persists even as the wind shifts across the open acreage.
History in this region is marked by the slow, deliberate work of agriculture, with the local economy rooted in the cultivation of the land and the maintenance of its modest infrastructure. While the proximity to the Smith County Soccer Complex offers a modern cadence to weekend life, the deeper rhythm of the place is dictated by the seasons and the cycle of the harvest. Industrial presence remains sparse, leaving the landscape to be shaped by the persistence of local families who have worked these tracts for generations. Those seeking the influence of larger bodies of water must look elsewhere, as the residents here find their water in the steady, narrow currents of the local creek rather than the expansive reaches of the Jersey Miniery Zinc Company Lake. Life in Brush Creek moves with a gravity of its own, grounded in the quiet endurance of a rural landscape that asks for nothing more than the careful attention of those who inhabit it.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Brush Creek, Tennessee. Coordinates: 36.007284, -87.081394. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Brush Creek includes the ZIP code (37327, 37062, 38547), telephone area code (615, 629, 423), county seat of Smith County (Carthage), and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |