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Odemville

Ghost town · Carter County, Tennessee

White Rocks Mtn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1934, 1:24,000)
White Rocks Mtn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1934, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Odemville is a ghost town in Carter County, Tennessee. It is one of 7 former communities in Carter County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 38th among the 86 Tennessee counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Odemville as a historical populated place on the White Rocks Mountain 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 36.2446° N, 82.0387° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleWhite Rocks Mountain
Elevation3,519 ft
Nearest living townRoan Mountain, TN
Distance to it4.4 miles
GNIS feature ID1303126
Coordinates36.24456, -82.03873

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.

Odemville today, aerial view
White Rocks Mtn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1934, 1:24,000)

Left: White Rocks Mtn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1934, 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

Odemville is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Roan Mountain, TN (population 976), about 4.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 3,519 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 Odemville?

Odemville is in Carter County, Tennessee, at 36.2446, -82.0387.

How many ghost towns are in Carter County?

Carter County, Tennessee has 7 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.