Tennessee Landforms

Balds As of 4/10/2024, balds have been merged with overlooks in the Tennessee Landforms primary dataset. They are still distinguishable by their names (which all include the word "Bald" somewhere). As they are a subset of the new feature type, overlooks, this made the most sense in terms of simplifying the dataset. They have been reassigned IDs which are consistent with overlooks. For example Big Chestnut Bald , once SV B 001, is now SV O 001. Overlooks Fish Gap Hill Overlook, Obion County; Chuck Sutherland An update I've been working on for the last week involved adding a lot more overlooks (approximately 100) to the already plentiful data that I had been amassing for years. The current dataset has 165 overlooks (with the inclusion of balds) of various qualities across the state. For you West Tennessee folks, you'll be excited to see that you actually have some. While on assignment for Roadside Geology of Tennessee many years ago, I had photograp

While reviewing, cleaning, and enhancing the data of Tennessee Landforms I found several points which while close to being inside of Tennessee, I opted to exclude from this dataset. My reasoning is that the points inside Kentucky fall within the purview of my friend's work at Kentucky Landforms. The North Carolina point falls within several datasets of North Carolina data. Removal from Tennessee Landforms doesn't mean removal from existence in other words. However, I present the data here, in the event that any other data sources are lost. ID Lat Long Name Type County Reference Notes CTF004 36.198700 -81.969500 Elk/