St. Joseph Tennessee Map

About St. Joseph, Tennessee

St. Joseph is a locality in Lawrence County, Tennessee, United States. It is a small community with a population of 790. The population density is 81.0 people per km². St. Joseph is located at 35.0362°N, 87.5067°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. St. Joseph is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 38481.

St. Joseph anchors itself in the quiet, verdant expanse of the Tennessee landscape where the Little Bluewater Creek carves a persistent, winding path through the limestone-rich earth. It lies 17.2 miles southwest of Lawrenceburg, TN (from Lawrenceburg, TN: bearing 214°T), and is situated 19.0 miles north-northeast of Florence. The terrain here rises and falls in modest, sun-drenched swells, a topography that seems to hold the light of late afternoon in its shallow folds long after the sun has dipped toward the horizon. To the north, the elevation shifts toward the prominence of Boarding House Hill, while the deeper earth of Tidwell Hollow provides a cooling refuge for the local flora. The air carries the scent of damp soil and drying hay, a sensory rhythm that defines the transition from the humid, heavy mornings to the crisp, violet-hued evenings that settle over the fields.

St. Joseph maintains a character defined by its agricultural roots and the patient, deliberate pace of a place where the seasons dictate the labor of the day. The economy remains tethered to the land and the modest commerce that supports the surrounding farmsteads, reflecting a resilience that has persisted through generations of slow, quiet change. Residents often look toward the broader regional landscape, finding recreation or a moment of stillness near the Shoal Creek Preserve Tract or the waters of Wilson Lake, both of which offer a reprieve from the daily tasks of the season. Life here is measured not by the urgency of distant cities, but by the steady, reliable persistence of the creek and the harvest, marking a existence that values the grounded reality of the soil above all else.

About This St. Joseph Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Joseph, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.036193, -87.50669. 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 St. Joseph includes the ZIP code (38481), telephone area code (901), county seat of Lawrence County (Lawrenceburg), and school district assignment (Lawrence 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.