Walnut Hill Tennessee Map

About Walnut Hill, Tennessee

Walnut Hill is a locality in Roane County, Tennessee, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,331. The population density is 218.9 people per km². Walnut Hill is located at 36.5679°N, 82.2657°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 38006, 37748, 37620.

Walnut Hill defines the rugged character of the landscape where the Bullard Branch carves a steady, silt-laden path through the earth. It lies 8.1 miles north-northeast of Roane, TN (from Roane, TN: bearing 12°T), and is situated 5.0 miles north-northwest of Kingston. The terrain here rises in stubborn, limestone-ribbed swells that eventually surrender to the distant, hazy silhouette of the Cumberland Mountains on the horizon. To the north, the land dips into the quiet shadows of Happy Hollow, while the nearby expanse of Triangle Park offers a brief, manicured respite from the surrounding thickets of oak and hickory. At dusk, the light catches the moisture rising from the soil, turning the atmosphere into a pale, translucent gauze that clings to the trees until the evening chill settles firmly over the ground.

Walnut Hill maintains a somber, industrious rhythm that has long been tethered to the slow extraction of resources and the seasonal cycles of the land. The economy persists in the quiet labor of small-scale agriculture and the occasional harvest of timber from the outskirts near Morgan State Forest, where the woods grow dense and unyielding. Residents often look toward the quiet, reflective surface of Whiteoak Lake as a place of stillness, a counterpoint to the relentless, narrow flow of the Bullard Branch nearby. Life here is not marked by grand spectacles, but by the persistent endurance of those who work the clay-heavy soil and keep the machinery of rural commerce turning, generation by generation, against the backdrop of an unchanging sky.

About This Walnut Hill Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Walnut Hill, Tennessee. Coordinates: 36.56789, -82.265677. 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 Walnut Hill includes the ZIP code (38006, 37748, 37620), telephone area code (865, 731), county seat of Roane County (Kingston), and school district assignment (Sullivan 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.