Lincoln County, Tennessee Map
Explore Lincoln County, Tennessee with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 9 cities and towns in Lincoln County below.
Interactive Map of Lincoln County, Tennessee
| County | Lincoln |
| State | Tennessee (TN) |
| County Seat | Fayetteville |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 35.084066 |
| Longitude | -86.561816 |
| Cities & Towns | 9 |
| Area Codes | 615, 901 |
About Lincoln County, Tennessee
Lincoln County occupies a space in the middle of the state where the Highland Rim begins to lose its sharper edges, softening into a landscape of broad, limestone-rich basins and fertile valleys. The Elk River carves a slow, serpentine path through this terrain, its waters often reflecting a pale, bruised sky in the hours before a summer storm. To the south, the boundary presses against the state line, where the geography feels less like a border and more like a gradual transition into the broader, warmer latitudes of the South. The air here holds a particular weight in the autumn, thick with the scent of curing tobacco and the damp, cooling breath of the low-lying fields.
Settlers moved into these woods during the first decade of the nineteenth century, arriving largely from the older states of Virginia and North Carolina to claim the land granted for Revolutionary War service. They organized the county by legislative act in 1809, establishing a seat of government that would serve as the singular point of gravity for the surrounding farms and homesteads. The courthouse square became the focal point for all civic life, a place where the architecture of the era still asserts a stubborn, brick-and-mortar permanence against the passage of years. During those early decades, the community coalesced around the necessity of trade and the shared labor of clearing the dense, ancient timber that once dominated the valley floor.
Lincoln County persists today as a landscape defined by the quiet industry of agriculture and the steady persistence of local manufacturing. The daily life of the region is measured by the movement of heavy machinery along narrow, state-maintained arteries and the sight of cattle grazing on the limestone-flecked pastures that define the local horizon. In the late afternoon, when the sun dips low and casts long, amber shadows across the fields, the land seems to hold a profound, singular stillness, as if the earth itself is pausing in its rotation. The character of the people is forged in this quietude, a temperament that values a slow, deliberate approach to the seasons and a deep, unspoken familiarity with the soil that sustains them.
Cities and Towns in Lincoln County
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About This Lincoln County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Lincoln County, Tennessee alongside links to detailed street maps for 9 cities and towns. The county seat is Fayetteville. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
