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Naola

Ghost town · Coffee County, Tennessee

Hollow Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 1:62,500)
Hollow Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Naola is a ghost town in Coffee County, Tennessee. It is one of 11 former communities in Coffee County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 23rd among the 86 Tennessee counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Naola as a historical populated place on the Hollow Springs 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 35.6406° N, 86.0333° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHollow Springs
Elevation1,042 ft
Nearest living townLakewood Park, TN
Distance to it5.8 miles
GNIS feature ID1310323
Coordinates35.64063, -86.03332

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.

Naola today, aerial view
Hollow Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 1:62,500)

Left: Hollow Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 1:62,500), 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

Naola is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lakewood Park, TN (population 1,016), about 5.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,042 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 Naola?

Naola is in Coffee County, Tennessee, at 35.6406, -86.0333.

How many ghost towns are in Coffee County?

Coffee County, Tennessee has 11 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

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.