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Gethsemane

Ghost town · Lincoln County, Tennessee

Fayetteville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)
Fayetteville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Gethsemane is a ghost town in Lincoln County, Tennessee. It is one of 3 former communities in Lincoln County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 70th among the 86 Tennessee counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Gethsemane as a historical populated place on the Fayetteville topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 35.1687° N, 86.5078° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleFayetteville
Elevation756 ft
Nearest living townFayetteville, TN
Distance to it3.3 miles
GNIS feature ID1310344
Coordinates35.16869, -86.50777

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Gethsemane today, aerial view
Fayetteville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)

Left: Fayetteville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Gethsemane is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Fayetteville, TN (population 7,037), about 3.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 756 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Gethsemane?

Gethsemane is in Lincoln County, Tennessee, at 35.1687, -86.5078.

How many ghost towns are in Lincoln County?

Lincoln County, Tennessee has 3 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.