Explore Piperton, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Piperton, 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 Piperton.
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 | Piperton |
| State | Tennessee (TN) |
| County | Fayette County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 35.052754 |
| Longitude | -89.609631 |
| Population | 2,263 |
| Density | 32.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 38017, 38066 |
| Area Code | 901 |
| County Seat | Somerville |
| School District | Fayette County School District |
Piperton emerges from the western Tennessee landscape as a quiet expanse of open fields and modest woodlands that define the transition between the delta plains and the higher ground to the east. It lies 2.4 miles east of Collierville, TN (from Collierville, TN: bearing 85°T), and is situated 18.1 miles east-southeast of Shelby. The horizon remains dominated by the vast, unencumbered sky, which turns a bruised, plum-colored gray as the sun retreats behind the distant silhouette of The Mountain. Russell Creek traces a thin, winding path through the soil just a mile away, its presence marked by the thick, dark stands of hardwoods that cling to the banks. The air here holds a stillness that seems to amplify the rustle of dry cornstalks, while the light at dusk settles over the fields in a way that makes the earth appear almost heavy, expectant of the coming night.
Piperton retains the character of a place built on the steady, deliberate labor of agriculture and the slow expansion of residential life. Residents often find respite in the quiet trails of Steeplechase Park, where the local vegetation thrives in the humid warmth of the afternoons. A few miles away, the waters of Milton Schaeffers Lake provide a calm, glassy mirror for the changing seasons, serving as a silent anchor for the local geography. While the pace of modern commerce has begun to brush against the edges of the land, the core of the area remains tethered to a slower rhythm, where the history of the soil remains visible in the wide, straight roads that cut through the countryside toward the distant, rolling relief of Spain Bottom.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Piperton, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.052754, -89.609631. 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 Piperton includes the ZIP code (38017, 38066), telephone area code (901), county seat of Fayette County (Somerville), and school district assignment (Fayette County School District).
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. |