Explore Falling Water, 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 Falling Water, 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 Falling Water.
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 | Falling Water |
| State | Tennessee (TN) |
| County | Hamilton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 35.203125 |
| Longitude | -85.25357 |
| Population | 1,873 |
| Density | 144.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 37343 |
| Area Code | 615 |
| County Seat | Chattanooga |
| School District | Hamilton County School District |
Falling Water occupies a stretch of land where the earth rises into quiet ridges and yields to the persistent, low-voiced movement of the Roberts Mill Branch. It lies 3.9 miles west of Middle Valley, TN (from Middle Valley, TN: bearing 277°T), and is situated 4.5 miles north-northwest of Hixson. The landscape here favors the patient observer, defined by the rugged limestone geometry of Pickett Gulf and the dense, shadowed canopy of the nearby Prentice Cooper State Forest. Sunlight filters through the high, tangled branches of hardwoods, casting long, splintered shadows across the ground as the afternoon wanes toward a deep, bruised violet. Two miles away, the persistent descent of Slider Falls adds a rhythmic, percussive quality to the air, a sound that persists in the background like a steady pulse beneath the stillness of the afternoon.
Falling Water bears the mark of an older, agrarian patience, its history legible in the way the fences follow the natural contours of the soil rather than the rigid dictates of a grid. The local economy persists in a quiet balance between the industry of the nearby cities and the lingering, self-contained habits of rural life, where the North Chickamauga Creek Wildlife Management Area serves as a living boundary against the encroachment of the modern world. Life moves with an unforced cadence, dictated more by the changing clarity of the water in Springfield Pond than by the distant, invisible influence of the Appalachian Mountains on the horizon. Here, the work of the day is measured in the maintenance of property and the preservation of a landscape that demands little but provides a profound, steady sense of belonging.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Falling Water, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.203125, -85.25357. 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 Falling Water includes the ZIP code (37343), telephone area code (615), county seat of Hamilton County (Chattanooga), and school district assignment (Hamilton County School District).
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. |