Oak Grove Tennessee Map

About Oak Grove, Tennessee

Oak Grove is a locality in Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,482. The population density is 386.1 people per km². Oak Grove is located at 36.4251°N, 82.4341°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 37866, 37769, 37357.

Oak Grove occupies a limestone-rich plateau where the earth holds a quiet, heavy stillness beneath the canopy of long-shadowed hardwoods. It lies 6.6 miles south of Cumberland, TN (from Cumberland, TN: bearing 186°T), and is situated 4.9 miles south-southeast of Lake Tansi. Daddys Creek carves a persistent path through the local topography, its waters pulling cool, dark silt toward the basin of Devilstep Hollow just a short distance away. While the distant Cumberland Mountains remain a jagged, violet silhouette against the western sky, the immediate landscape is defined by the steady, unyielding terrain of the high ground. Sunlight here does not merely illuminate; it thickens, catching the dust of the fields and turning the late afternoon into a dense, amber clarity that slows the movement of anyone walking the perimeter of the nearby Cumberland Trail.

Oak Grove carries the weight of a history rooted in the extraction of minerals and the slow, deliberate cultivation of the soil. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the land, shifting between the labor of timber and the maintenance of small-scale agriculture that has persisted for generations. Residents often travel the short four-mile span to Lake Tansi for the reprieve of open water, though the true character of the locality is found in the older, weathered architecture that predates the modern expansion. Life in Oak Grove persists without the urgency found in the state’s larger urban centers, favoring instead the grounded consistency of a place where the changing seasons dictate the pace of work and the quiet settling of the evening air.

About This Oak Grove Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Oak Grove, Tennessee. Coordinates: 36.425062, -82.434054. 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 Oak Grove includes the ZIP code (37866, 37769, 37357), telephone area code (615, 731), county seat of Cumberland County (Crossville), and school district assignment (Washington 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.