1979 Map of Chattanooga

About this map

Chattanooga and its surrounding river valley are anchored by the engineering of the Tennessee River, where the Chickamauga Dam and Nickajack Dam have transformed the waterway into a series of massive reservoirs including Chickamauga Lake. The landscape is defined by the sharp verticality of the Cumberland Plateau and Walden Ridge, which hem in the Sequatchie Valley. To the west, the high elevations around Sewanee are marked by the University of the South, while the plateau surface near Tracy City and Coalmont shows extensive land use through numerous Strip Mines.