Springfield Tennessee Map

About Springfield, Tennessee

Springfield is a locality in Blount County, Tennessee, United States. It has a population of 18,782. The population density is 552.4 people per km². Springfield is located at 36.4936°N, 86.8722°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Springfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 37804, 37172.

Springfield occupies a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of red clay soil and the long, slow shadows cast by the afternoon sun across the middle Tennessee plateau. It lies 2.2 miles east-northeast of Maryville, TN (from Maryville, TN: bearing 62°T), and is situated 8.5 miles northwest of Blount. The terrain here rises and falls in rhythmic waves, a landlocked expanse where the horizon toward the east holds the faint, bruised silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains. Near the edge of town, the water of Peppermint Branch moves sluggishly through the brush, carving a narrow path through the limestone bedrock that underpins the entire region. Within the boundaries of John Sevier Park, the air holds a heavy, humid stillness at dusk, carrying the scent of damp earth and coming rain that settles over the fields like a shroud.

Springfield maintains a character forged by the legacy of dark-fired tobacco, a crop that has dictated the pace of labor and the rhythm of the seasons for generations. The economy remains tethered to this soil, though the industrial hum of modern manufacturing now shares space with the old agrarian traditions that once defined the surrounding acreage. Far to the northwest of the deep basins like Tarkiln Valley, the town retains a self-contained gravity, indifferent to the encroaching sprawl of busier centers. Life in Springfield moves with a deliberate, measured caution, grounded by the weight of historical memory and the simple, unadorned reality of a region that asks nothing of the traveler but an acknowledgment of its enduring, workaday silence.

About This Springfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Springfield, Tennessee. Coordinates: 36.493599, -86.872209. 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 Springfield includes the ZIP code (37804, 37172), telephone area code (865, 615), county seat of Blount County (Maryville), and school district assignment (Robertson 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.