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Richland

Ghost town · Giles County, Tennessee

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

Richland is a ghost town in Giles County, Tennessee. It is one of 5 former communities in Giles County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 53rd among the 86 Tennessee counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Richland as a historical populated place on the Brick Church 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 35.3065° N, 86.9394° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBrick Church
Elevation742 ft
Nearest living townCornersville, TN
Distance to it6 miles
GNIS feature ID1310388
Coordinates35.30647, -86.93945

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.

Richland today, aerial view
Brick Church quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)

Left: Brick Church 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

Richland is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Cornersville, TN (population 1,832), about 6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 742 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 Richland?

Richland is in Giles County, Tennessee, at 35.3065, -86.9394.

How many ghost towns are in Giles County?

Giles 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.