Explore Eaton, 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 Eaton, 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 Eaton.
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 | Eaton |
| State | Tennessee (TN) |
| County | Gibson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 35.839244 |
| Longitude | -84.282421 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 12.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 38382, 37772, 38331 |
| Area Code | 865, 901 |
| County Seat | Trenton |
Eaton occupies a quiet expanse of West Tennessee where the earth spreads out in wide, level stretches of dark, fertile soil. It lies 14.9 miles east-southeast of Dyersburg, TN (from Dyersburg, TN: bearing 108°T), and is situated 15.9 miles northwest of Humboldt. The horizon remains largely unbroken, save for the occasional silhouette of a distant tree line or the subtle depression of Macedonia Bottom, which carves a shallow, verdant path through the surrounding fields four miles away. Buck Creek moves with a deliberate, low-slung pace just a mile from the center, its waters feeding the moisture into the heavy, humid air that often hangs over the landscape at dusk. While the jagged peaks of Sheep Ridge remain a faint, ethereal memory thirty-five miles to the east, the immediate surroundings of Eaton favor the steady, sun-drenched flatness of the delta plains, where the sky claims a vast portion of the visual field, shifting from pale amber to a bruised violet as the day concludes.
History in Eaton remains tethered to the rhythmic demands of the soil, as the local economy has long drawn its vitality from the cycles of agriculture that define the region. The proximity to the Tigrett Wildlife Management Area ensures that the land retains a sense of wild, undisturbed purpose, providing a sanctuary for migratory birds and local fauna that frequent the brush and wetlands. Though W H Bowers Lake rests five miles distant, the life of the locality centers on the quiet labor of the fields and the slow, persistent growth of crops that have sustained families here for generations. Life in Eaton follows the patient, unadorned tempo of the seasons, marked by the transformation of the fields from green shoots to harvest gold, reflecting a character forged by the direct, honest relationship between the people and the expanse of the ground beneath their feet.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Eaton, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.839244, -84.282421. 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 Eaton includes the ZIP code (38382, 37772, 38331), telephone area code (865, 901), county seat of Gibson County (Trenton), 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. |