Shiloh Tennessee Map

About Shiloh, Tennessee

Shiloh is a locality in Jackson County, Tennessee, United States. It is a small community with a population of 163. The population density is 42.1 people per km². Shiloh is located at 35.1098°N, 88.3645°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 38542, 37183, 37130.

Shiloh occupies a quiet expanse of land where the earth holds the stillness of long-settled soil. It lies 7.7 miles northwest of Cookeville, TN (from Cookeville, TN: bearing 319°T), and is situated 8.8 miles west-northwest of Algood. Bowman Branch carves a narrow, persistent path through the terrain just a mile from the center, its water clear and indifferent to the passage of time. Beyond the immediate fields, the horizon stays low, though the Cumberland Mountains sit sixty-one miles away as a faint, serrated bruise against the sky. The quality of light here in the late afternoon possesses a heavy, amber clarity that seems to sharpen the edges of the oak trees and deepen the shadows in Twelve Corners Hollow. This landscape is a patchwork of working fields and thickets, a place where the air carries the dry, honest scent of disturbed dust and cooling clover.

Shiloh retains a gravity born of its profound historical resonance, an weight that anchors the local economy to the land and its preservation. Visitors often gravitate toward the nearby Cummins Falls, where the water tumbles over rock, providing a sharp, rhythmic contrast to the silence of the surrounding woods. While Cane Creek Lake remains six miles distant, its presence influences the local moisture and the slow, deliberate pace of the days. Life in Shiloh moves with the predictable cycle of the seasons, dictated by the needs of the soil and the maintenance of the quiet roads that connect the scattered homes. It is a place that demands little from the traveler, offering instead a sober invitation to observe the way the land keeps its own counsel, unbothered by the frantic pulse of the world beyond its borders.

About This Shiloh Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Shiloh, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.109845, -88.364533. 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 Shiloh includes the ZIP code (38542, 37183, 37130), telephone area code (615, 901), county seat of Jackson County (Gainesboro), and school district assignment (Hardin 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.