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Pineland

Ghost town · Meigs County, Tennessee

Big Spring quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:24,000)
Big Spring quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Pineland is a ghost town in Meigs County, Tennessee. It is one of 5 former communities in Meigs County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 52nd among the 86 Tennessee counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Pineland as a historical populated place on the Big Spring 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 35.4526° N, 84.8880° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBig Spring
Elevation704 ft
Nearest living townDayton, TN
Distance to it7.4 miles
GNIS feature ID1309931
Coordinates35.45257, -84.88800

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.

Pineland today, aerial view
Big Spring quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:24,000)

Left: Big Spring quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 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

Pineland is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Dayton, TN (population 7,191), about 7.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 704 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 Pineland?

Pineland is in Meigs County, Tennessee, at 35.4526, -84.8880.

How many ghost towns are in Meigs County?

Meigs County, Tennessee has 5 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.