Lancaster Tennessee Map
Explore Lancaster, 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 Lancaster, Tennessee
How to Use This Lancaster, Tennessee Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lancaster, 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 Lancaster.
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 | Lancaster |
| State | Tennessee (TN) |
| County | Smith County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.127559 |
| Longitude | -85.854152 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 38569 |
| Area Code | 423 |
| County Seat | Carthage |
About Lancaster, Tennessee
Lancaster is a locality in Smith County, Tennessee, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Lancaster is located at 36.1276°N, 85.8542°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 38569.Lancaster occupies a quiet corner of the Tennessee landscape where the earth folds into deep, verdant depressions. It lies 11.0 miles north-northwest of DeKalb, TN (from DeKalb, TN: bearing 346°T), and is situated 9.6 miles southeast of South Carthage. Smith Fork Creek carves a path through the limestone bedrock just a mile away, its presence marked by the persistent, low-frequency hum of water moving against moss-slicked stone. Beyond the immediate canopy of hardwoods, the terrain shifts into the quiet shadows of Cowan Hollow, where the air holds a heavy, cool moisture even in the height of summer. On the distant horizon, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Cumberland Mountains suggests a vastness that defines the regional scale, though here the immediate world is one of dense timber, private dirt roads, and the way the late afternoon light turns the dust into a fine, golden powder.
Lancaster persists as a place of modest, enduring rhythms, far removed from the frantic pace of the state’s larger centers. Local life remains tied to the land, with the economy favoring small-scale agriculture and the quiet maintenance of rural homesteads. Residents often look toward the Center Hill Recreation Area for a sense of public space, finding a different sort of stillness at the edge of Center Hill Lake, which sits only three miles from the center of the locality. There is a perceptible dignity in how the inhabitants attend to their days, working the soil or traveling toward nearby hubs for labor, always returning to a landscape that feels unchanged by the passing decades. History here is not found in grand monuments, but in the slow accumulation of seasons and the steady, unpretentious character of those who remain.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Center Hill Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 1.9 mi, 150° SE
- Long Branch Public Hunting Area (State Resource Management Area) — 2.1 mi, 150° SE
- Edgar Evins State Park & Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.4 mi, 134° SE
- Edgar Evins (State Park) — 2.4 mi, 134° SE
- Canoe the Caney - Satellite Location (Attraction) — 2.6 mi, 125° SE
- Center Hill Lake (Recreation Area) — 2.6 mi, 144° SE
- Evins Ridge Trail (Viewpoint) — 3.9 mi, 164° S
- Cordell Hull Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.8 mi, 015° N
- Smith County Soccer Complex (Local Recreation) — 8.1 mi, 319° NW
- Carthage Junction Depot (Gallery) — 8.3 mi, 320° NW
- The Eads Museum (Museum) — 9.5 mi, 324° NW
- Smith County Heritage Museum (Museum) — 10.2 mi, 328° NW
- Burgess Falls (State Park) — 14.0 mi, 111° E
- Flynn Creek Impact Crater marker (Monument) — 14.9 mi, 045° NE
- The Pink Elephant (Monument) — 18.8 mi, 085° E
- The Munkey Wrench (Gallery) — 19.5 mi, 082° E
- Sandra Bos (Gallery) — 19.5 mi, 082° E
- Backdoor Playhouse (Theatre) — 19.8 mi, 081° E
- TTU Eagle Statue (Public Artwork) — 19.9 mi, 080° E
- Cannon County Playhouse (Theatre) — 24.9 mi, 212° SW
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About This Lancaster Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lancaster, Tennessee. Coordinates: 36.127559, -85.854152. 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 Lancaster includes the ZIP code (38569), telephone area code (423), county seat of Smith County (Carthage), 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. |
