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Cottontown Tennessee Map

Explore Cottontown, 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.

Interactive Map of Cottontown, Tennessee

How to Use This Cottontown, Tennessee Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Cottontown, 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 Cottontown.

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	Cottontown
State	Tennessee (TN)
County	Sumner County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	36.451434
Longitude	-86.53805
Population	397
Density	43.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	37048, 37066
Area Code	615, 629
County Seat	Gallatin
School District	Sumner County School District

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About Cottontown, Tennessee

Cottontown is a locality in Sumner County, Tennessee, United States. It is a small community with a population of 397. The population density is 43.7 people per km². Cottontown is located at 36.4514°N, 86.5380°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 37048, 37066.

Cottontown emerges from the quiet, verdant folds of the landscape where the earth settles into the low, shadowed embrace of Bug Hollow. It lies 2.6 miles west-southwest of Sumner, TN (from Sumner, TN: bearing 237°T), and is situated 6.7 miles northwest of Gallatin. Station Camp Creek carves a persistent, silver-threaded path through this terrain, its waters moving with a deliberate, slow-turning grace that mirrors the stillness of the surrounding woodland. The air here holds a particular weight at dusk, cooling rapidly as the light thins and settles against the limestone-rich soil. While the distant Appalachian Mountains might rise like a jagged, violet bruise against the far horizon on a clear day, the immediate world remains defined by the intimate scale of pasture and woodlot, where the shadows of oak and hickory stretch long and thin across the fields.

Cottontown retains the quiet character of its agricultural origins, a place where the economy still leans into the rhythms of the soil and the modest labor of the surrounding acres. Life moves in accordance with the turning of the seasons, far removed from the frantic pace of the state’s larger centers, yet connected to the regional legacy of Middle Tennessee. Residents occasionally seek the quietude of Clearview Park or the expanse of Polk Lake for respite, finding in those spaces a continuation of the land’s patient, unhurried temperament. History persists here not in grand monuments, but in the enduring lines of fence rows and the way the morning mist clings to the low-lying basins, preserving a sense of place that remains largely indifferent to the passage of time.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Clark House Museum and Trailhead (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 194° S
Old Hickory Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 5.8 mi, 153° SE
Gallatin Municipal Park (Local Park) — 6.1 mi, 122° SE
Triple Creek Park (Local Park) — 6.4 mi, 114° SE
Old Hickory Lake (Recreation Area) — 6.7 mi, 152° SE
Sumner County Museum (Museum) — 6.7 mi, 132° SE
White House Inn Museum (Museum) — 6.9 mi, 280° W
Gallatin Green Wave Football Stadium (Stadium) — 7.2 mi, 124° SE
Giant Aboriginal Statue (Attraction) — 7.8 mi, 313° NW
Johnny Cash Museum (Museum) — 8.8 mi, 190° S
Indian Park East Greenway (Local Recreation) — 8.9 mi, 197° S
Old Hickory Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.1 mi, 143° SE
Cold Springs Museum (Museum) — 9.3 mi, 010° N
Gallatin Steam Plant Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.3 mi, 139° SE
Bledsoe Creek (State Park) — 10.9 mi, 117° SE
Taylor Swift Auditorium (Theatre) — 10.9 mi, 200° S
Dollar General bear statue (Public Artwork) — 13.3 mi, 222° SW
U.S.C.T Monument (Monument) — 18.0 mi, 216° SW
Minnesota Monument (Monument) — 18.0 mi, 216° SW
Texas Troubadour Theatre (Theatre) — 18.3 mi, 209° SW
AxeVentures (Attraction) — 18.3 mi, 209° SW
"sue Mundy's" Grave - Historical Marker (Monument) — 19.2 mi, 353° N
Coopertoen Drive-In Theater (Cinema) — 20.2 mi, 264° W
AdventureWorks Zipline Forest (Attraction) — 21.0 mi, 231° SW
Fontanel Mansion (Attraction) — 21.1 mi, 230° SW
Capitol Theater (Cinema) — 21.7 mi, 141° SE
Long Hunter (State Park) — 22.3 mi, 182° S
Mammoth Cave National Park (National Park) — 51.3 mi, 024° NE · 51k acres
Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 62.6 mi, 268° W · 13k acres

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