2016 Map of Ten Mile

About this map

Watts Bar Lake dominates the western half of this quadrangle, where the waters of the Tennessee River basin submerge the historic White Creek Shoals and create landmarks like Pearl Harbor and Iron Hill Island. The eastern landscape is defined by the ridgelines and hollows of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, including Ten Mile Ridge and No Pone Ridge. This topography has historically funneled settlement into pockets like Ten Mile and Maple Grove. For genealogists, the map is a dense record of family history, preserving the locations of numerous burial grounds such as Old Pleasant Hill Cem, Roark Cemetery, and the Deatherage Cem. The intersection of multiple counties—Meigs, Roane, Rhea, and McMinn—highlights the area's importance as a regional borderland shaped by the Tennessee Valley Authority’s mid-century influence on the local landscape.