Mount Pleasant Tennessee Map

About Mount Pleasant, Tennessee

Mount Pleasant is a locality in Henry County, Tennessee, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,784. The population density is 146.9 people per km². Mount Pleasant is located at 35.5481°N, 87.1869°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mount Pleasant is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 37743, 37818, 38222.

Mount Pleasant sits upon a landscape defined by the steady, unadorned pulse of the Lawrence Branch as it carves a path through the limestone-rich earth. It lies 13.5 miles north-northeast of Paris, TN (from Paris, TN: bearing 19°T), and is situated 9.3 miles south-southeast of Murray. The horizon is punctuated six miles away by the silhouette of Owens Hill, while the nearby terrain dips into the quiet, shadowed basin of Bullfrog Hollow. Here, the air carries a heavy, terrestrial stillness, especially when the afternoon light catches the dust rising from the fields, turning the atmosphere into a pale, golden amber that seems to suspend the very passage of time. The land remains largely pastoral, a testament to the middle Tennessee geography where the soil holds the memory of ancient geological shifts and the slow, rhythmic cycle of the seasons.

Mount Pleasant maintains a character forged by the legacy of phosphate mining, an industry that once reshaped the physical and economic contours of the region. This history remains visible in the industrial remnants that linger in the periphery, contrasting with the quiet preservation found at Hazel City Park/James R. Latner Park. Daily life in Mount Pleasant follows the measured cadence of a place that has learned to transform its natural resources into a sustained existence, far removed from the frantic pace of the larger world. Even the proximity of Kentucky Lake, resting seven miles away, offers a sense of expansive reach to a locality that otherwise finds its strength in the solid, grounded reality of the inland plains.

About This Mount Pleasant Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mount Pleasant, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.54815, -87.186928. 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 Mount Pleasant includes the ZIP code (37743, 37818, 38222), telephone area code (901), county seat of Henry County (Paris), and school district assignment (Maury County School District).

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.