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Only Tennessee Map

Explore Only, 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 Only, Tennessee

How to Use This Only, Tennessee Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Only, 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 Only.

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.

CityOnly
StateTennessee (TN)
CountyHickman County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude35.861732
Longitude-87.691688
Population280
Density5.0 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code37140
Area Code615
County SeatCenterville

About Only, Tennessee

Only is a locality in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Only is located at 35.8617°N, 87.6917°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 37140.

Only rests within the quiet embrace of Meetinghouse Hollow, where the landscape is defined by the slow, deliberate rise of the land and the deep silence of hardwood timber. It lies 11.5 miles south-southeast of Humphreys, TN (from Humphreys, TN: bearing 167°T), and is situated 17.0 miles northeast of Perry. The earth here holds a heavy, damp scent of loam and decaying leaves, particularly near the banks of King Branch, which carves a modest, serpentine path through the terrain. To the west, the horizon is anchored by the silhouette of Rushing Hill, rising seven miles away to break the monotony of the sky. The atmosphere in Only is thick with the stillness of middle Tennessee, where the afternoon light filters through the canopy in long, amber shafts, illuminating the dust motes and the rugged, unpolished character of the soil.

Generations of families have organized their lives around the rhythms of the land, finding sustenance in the fertile pockets that define the local economy and the surrounding woodland. Beyond the immediate reach of the dwellings, the Happy Hollow Wildlife Management Area preserves a vast, untamed expanse that serves as a reminder of the wilderness that predates all human settlement here. While the proximity of Kentucky Lake, twelve miles distant, offers a broader expanse of water, the lifeblood of Only remains the intimate, shadowed hollows and the quietude of the backcountry. The pace of existence here is measured not by the clock, but by the turning of the seasons, as the inhabitants maintain a persistent, grounded connection to the geography that keeps them anchored to this specific corner of the world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Happy Hollow Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.8 mi, 099° E
  • Duck River Megasite Fee (Conservation Area) — 2.5 mi, 216° SW
  • Lee & Gould Furnace (Monument) — 3.7 mi, 053° NE
  • Buffalo Ridge Refuge (State Conservation Area) — 6.5 mi, 258° W
  • Johnsonville (State Park) — 11.6 mi, 325° NW
  • Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.0 mi, 271° W · 22k acres
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 16.0 mi, 342° N
  • Mousetail Landing (State Park) — 20.5 mi, 234° SW
  • Steam Engine (Attraction) — 22.4 mi, 050° NE
  • Elephant Discovery Center (Museum) — 23.1 mi, 160° S
  • Lonesome Pine Cabin - City Park (Historic Ruins) — 24.5 mi, 058° NE
  • Natchez Trace State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 26.1 mi, 251° W
  • Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Randy Hughes Crash Site (Monument) — 29.7 mi, 298° NW
  • Our Lady of Lever Lake (Public Artwork) — 36.1 mi, 074° E
  • Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.3 mi, 358° N · 13k acres
  • Mound Bottom State Archaeology Area (Historic Ruins) — 38.2 mi, 060° NE
  • Parker's Crossroads Civil War Battlefield (Monument) — 39.4 mi, 263° W
  • Saint Peters Episcopal Church (Attraction) — 40.4 mi, 115° SE
  • Amuse'um (Museum) — 40.6 mi, 115° SE
  • Floating Bridge (Viewpoint) — 44.5 mi, 155° SE
  • Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 44.9 mi, 342° N · 171k acres
  • Land Between the Lakes Other (National Forest) — 44.9 mi, 342° N · 171k acres
  • David Crockett Museum (Museum) — 45.3 mi, 155° SE
  • Franklin Theatre (Cinema) — 46.1 mi, 084° E
  • WTPR Fish (Attraction) — 46.7 mi, 311° NW
  • Carnton Plantation (Museum) — 46.7 mi, 086° E
  • Studio Tenn Theatre Company (Theatre) — 46.8 mi, 084° E
  • Brookmeade Park at Kelley's Point Battlefield (Registered Battlefield) — 47.8 mi, 067° NE
  • Cheekwood Mansion (Museum) — 48.2 mi, 071° E
  • Kentucky Lake Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 48.4 mi, 335° NW · 7,899 acres

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About This Only Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Only, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.861732, -87.691688. 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 Only includes the ZIP code (37140), telephone area code (615), county seat of Hickman County (Centerville), 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.