Georgetown Tennessee Map

About Georgetown, Tennessee

Georgetown is a locality in Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States. Georgetown is located at 35.8809°N, 86.4161°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 37043, 38382, 37129.

Georgetown emerges from the quiet intersection of land and water, defined by the steady, persistent presence of the West Fork Stones River. It lies 2.8 miles north-northwest of Murfreesboro, TN (from Murfreesboro, TN: bearing 329°T), and is situated 9.1 miles southeast of Smyrna. This waterway carves a path through the landscape, its current often muted by the surrounding limestone shelves that give the earth a pale, splintered texture. To the horizon, the air carries a clarity that sharpens the edges of the distant Appalachian Mountains, appearing as a faint, jagged bruise against the sky. The nearby Bark Park serves as a gathering point where the tall grasses sway in the afternoon heat, and the proximity of Sterling Farmer Lake, only four miles away, draws the gaze toward the stillness of deeper, standing water.

Georgetown retains a character shaped by the slow, deliberate work of the soil and the legacy of the settlers who first cleared these woods long before the nearby Cedars of Lebanon State Forest became a protected boundary. The economy remains rooted in the rhythm of the seasons, echoing the agrarian traditions that once defined the broader reaches of the region, including the quiet, sunken depths of Rutledge Hollow. Life in Georgetown proceeds without haste, marked by the turning of the light over the fields and the seasonal maintenance of fences and barns. There is a singular honesty in the way the sunlight catches the dust on a summer evening, highlighting a place that values the weight of its own history over the noise of modern expansion.

About This Georgetown Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Georgetown, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.880898, -86.416103. 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 Georgetown includes the ZIP code (37043, 38382, 37129), telephone area code (615), county seat of Rutherford County (Murfreesboro), and school district assignment.

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.