Explore Gruetli Laager, 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 Gruetli Laager, 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 Gruetli Laager.
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 | Gruetli Laager |
| State | Tennessee (TN) |
| County | Grundy County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 35.372295 |
| Longitude | -85.618027 |
| Population | 1,803 |
| Density | 55.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 37339 |
| Area Code | 615 |
| County Seat | Altamont |
Gruetli Laager defines the high, quiet plateau of the Cumberland, where the air thins and cools against the persistent, low-slung horizon. It lies 4.3 miles east-southeast of Grundy, TN (from Grundy, TN: bearing 118°T), and is situated 12.8 miles west of Dunlap. Rocky Mountain Creek carves a meditative path through this landscape, its waters pulling at the limestone foundations of the earth before disappearing toward the deeper folds of the terrain. To the west, the dark, fractured topography of Elder Thicket Gulf marks a boundary of shadow and silence, while the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains serves as a reminder of the vast, ancient spine that dictates the weather patterns of this high ground. The light here at dusk possesses a singular clarity, turning the fields a bruised, violet gray that seems to hold the day’s warmth long after the sun has slipped behind the tree line.
Gruetli Laager preserves the echoes of its nineteenth-century Swiss founders, who sought to carve a life from the dense, stubborn timber and rocky soil of the plateau. The local economy, once tethered to the rhythmic output of coal mines, has softened into a quieter life of small-scale agriculture and the steady, unpretentious labor of a place that values its own solitude. Visitors often look toward the nearby Savage Gulf Designated State Natural Area to witness the raw, rugged geology that once challenged those early settlers, while the expanses of Grundy State Forest offer a deep, verdant buffer against the encroachment of the wider world. Life in Gruetli Laager moves with the deliberate pace of a pendulum, undisturbed by the frantic velocity of distant metropolitan centers, finding its own cadence in the seasonal turning of the woods and the persistent, low murmur of the nearby Big Creek Lake.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gruetli Laager, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.372295, -85.618027. 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 Gruetli Laager includes the ZIP code (37339), telephone area code (615), county seat of Grundy County (Altamont), 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. |