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Rocky Point

Ghost town · Cannon 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

Rocky Point is a ghost town in Cannon County, Tennessee. It is one of 20 former communities in Cannon County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 4th among the 86 Tennessee counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Rocky Point 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 35.7251° N, 86.1119° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHollow Springs
Elevation771 ft
Nearest living townLakewood Park, TN
Distance to it5.4 miles
GNIS feature ID1643630
Coordinates35.72507, -86.11194

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.

Rocky Point 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

Rocky Point is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lakewood Park, TN (population 1,016), about 5.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 771 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 Rocky Point?

Rocky Point is in Cannon County, Tennessee, at 35.7251, -86.1119.

How many ghost towns are in Cannon County?

Cannon County, Tennessee has 20 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.