Explore Whitleyville, 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 Whitleyville, 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 Whitleyville.
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 | Whitleyville |
| State | Tennessee (TN) |
| County | Jackson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.445337 |
| Longitude | -85.671921 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 38588 |
| Area Code | 423 |
| County Seat | Gainesboro |
Whitleyville occupies a quiet intersection of limestone earth and sudden, sharp declivities where the Germany Branch carves its narrow path through the limestone. It lies 21.7 miles north-northwest of Cookeville, TN (from Cookeville, TN: bearing 334°T), and is situated 10.6 miles southwest of Clay. The land here is defined by the deep, shadowed geometry of Happy Hollow, a basin that holds the morning mist long after the sun has climbed the ridges. To the west, the horizon holds the faint, bruised silhouette of the Cumberland Mountains, serving as a distant anchor to a landscape otherwise dominated by the humid, heavy stillness of the woods. Only a mile away, the expansive, man-made presence of Cordell Hull Reservoir exerts a subtle influence on the local climate, cooling the evening air and drawing the gaze toward its wide, glassy stretches of water.
Whitleyville remains a landscape of remnants and slow-turning seasons, where the economy is tethered to the stubborn resilience of the soil and the quiet labor of those who work the land. The nearby Cordell Hull Refuge provides a sanctuary for the local fauna, preserving a wildness that persists despite the encroachment of modern industry. Life in Whitleyville follows the cadence of the seasons, marked by the sparse traffic on the backroads and the persistent, low-frequency hum of rural industry. There is a particular weight to the silence here, a quality of light that filters through the dense canopy to catch the dust motes in the air, revealing a place that measures its own time not by the clock, but by the gradual change of the trees and the steady, unhurried flow of the water passing through the basin.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Whitleyville, Tennessee. Coordinates: 36.445337, -85.671921. 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 Whitleyville includes the ZIP code (38588), telephone area code (423), county seat of Jackson County (Gainesboro), and school district assignment.
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. |