Property maps, maintained by your local county Assessor's office, are a best-fit visualization of how all the properties in a county relate to one another. The property lines are determined by examining detailed property descriptions on deeds and by using surveys created by a licensed surveyor.

If you feel your property is drawn in error, you should contact your local Assessor's office and work with them to resolve the discrepancy. If you have a deed or survey of your property, that will be helpful to the Assessor's office personnel. You can find the contact information for your local Assessor at this link.

If you recently purchased an existing piece of property and no property lines were altered (simple change of ownership of an existing piece of property), it is likely that the information has not filtered up to our site yet. If your recent purchase (after January 1) resulted in new property lines being established (e.g. you purchased five acres out of a ten acre property), the property will not appear on our site until after the county has mailed the tax bill. This is usually around October or November.

In either case, you can contact your local county Assessor with questions about ownership. You can find the contact information for your local Assessor at this link.

You should contact your local Assessor with any errors you believe exist in your property record information, e.g., misspelled name, wrong street address, etc.

The property information available on the Viewer is provided in various forms to the State by the local county Assessors. In some cases, the geometry (line work) is maintained electronically by the local Assessor and moves quickly to the State and thus into the Viewer. In other cases, the local Assessor maintains the geometry in a paper environment and it can take several months to be converted into a digital product and incorporated into the Viewer.

No. The parcels represented here are for property tax assessment purposes only and do not represent legal boundaries of property.

Property lines along with the maps they are associated with are generated in the local county office of the Assessor of Property, and are based upon detailed property descriptions on deeds and by using surveys created by a licensed surveyor. The data is collected for property tax assessment purposes only and does not represent legal descriptions of property nor does it establish boundary lines.

In most counties in Tennessee, the local county Assessor of Property’s office is responsible for maintaining the property maps. While this Viewer makes every effort to make the best available data accessible to the public, the local Assessor’s office is always going to be the most accurate and up to date source for assessment information. Here is a link to contact information for local Assessor offices in Tennessee.

This application allows for searching and displaying property ownership and location information for 81 counties in Tennessee. It is designed to work in concert with the Real Estate Assessment Data site operated by the Comptroller of the Treasury. The following counties are not available in this application but can be found on their own internet sites: Chester, Davidson (Metro Nashville), Hamilton (Chattanooga), Hickman, Knox (Knoxville), Montgomery, Rutherford (Murfreesboro), Shelby (Memphis), and Williamson.

• Zoom: You can zoom the map in and out using your middle mouse wheel, by using the zoom slider on the left side of the map, or by using the zoom tools on the navigation toolbar to the right. Click the zoom in tool and drag a box on the map to zoom in. Click the globe button to zoom out to the full state level. Use the zoom previous and zoom next buttons to navigate between map extents.
• Pan: You can move the map in any direction by clicking and holding the left mouse button, dragging the map, and releasing the mouse button. If you have another tool activated from the navigation toolbar, you can click the hand button to reactivate panning.

• Point: Click the Point button to activate it. Next, click a location on the map. The coordinates will automatically return in Tennessee State Plane Feet, Decimal Degrees, and Degrees Minutes Seconds.
• Line: Click the Line button to activate it. Click on the map once to start drawing the line. With each click, the line length will increase. When you are ready for the end of the line, double-click and the line length values will automatically return in feet, meters, and yards.
• Area: Click the Area button to activate it. Click one the map once to start drawing the polygon. With each click, the area will start to take shape. It will automatically shade in light gray after the third click. When you are ready to complete the polygon, double-click and the values will automatically return. Perimeter: feet, meters, and yards. Area: square feet, square meters, square yards, acres, and square miles.

1. You must first choose a county to search within from the drop down menu.
2. Next, you must select the search type:
• Parcel Number: This will search for all or part of a parcel number in the selected county. Entering only a Control Map will return all parcels that match that Control Map for the selected county. The more information you provide, the more narrow the result set will be.
• Owner Name: This will search the parcels in the selected county for an owner's name. You do not need to enter the entire name to search. A search value of "Smith" a search value of "Smith J" will both return Smith John in the results. The more information you provide, the more narrow the result set will be. If you are entering first and last name, enter them in the format of LASTNAME FIRSTNAME.
• Property Address: This search is a text search based on the property ownership records. This is the site address of the parcel as entered by the local Assessor's office. Typically, the best results are achieved by entering only the street name without the suffix, or by entering the street name first and then the street number. Note the example above the text box.
• Subdivision Name: This will search the parcels in the selected county for the name of a subdivision. You do not need to enter the entire name to search. A search value of "Sycamore" and a search value of "Sycamore Bend" will both return "Sycamore Bend" in the search results. The more information you provide, the more narrow the result set will be. The results will be grouped by Subdivision name and ordered by address within each group.
3. Lastly, you must enter the search value appropriate to the search type.

• Search Results: Multiple results returned from one of the four Parcel-Related Searches will show here while the map zooms to the extent of all of the results. The results will appear in a table showing the parcel number, owner, and address of each piece of property that matches the search criteria. Subdivision search results will be grouped by Subdivision name and will be ordered by address. Moving your mouse over each result in the table will highlight the corresponding property on the map. Clicking on a result in the table will zoom the map to that property and show detailed ownership information in the Property Detail section below.
• Property Detail: Clicking on a result in the grid or clicking the identify tool () on the toolbar and then clicking a property on the map will show the detailed ownership information in this section. The owner name (and additional owner if applicable), address, parcel number, deeded acreage (if available), calculated acreage, subdivision and lot (if applicable) will show here. A button called "Export PDF of this map" will open up a new window showing a pdf document that you may save to your computer or print using your regular browser print functionality (Note: if you have a pop-up blocker enabled on your browser, it may block the pdf from showing. A direct link to the pdf will appear below the button.). There will also be a link to the Real Estate Assessment Data site operated by the Comptroller of the Treasury that will show you further detailed ownership information for that property.

• Street Map: If the background of the map shows aerial imagery, clicking this button will change the background to the standard street map.
• Aerial Photography: If the background of the map shows the standard street map, clicking this button will change the background to the aerial imagery from TDOT.
• Toggle Vexcel Imagery: Clicking this button will toggle on/off the Vexcel Imagery layer.
• Toggle Property Lines: Clicking this button will toggle on/off the Property Boundary layer.
• Toggle FEMA DFIRM Flood Map: Clicking this button will toggle on/off the Digital Flood Insurace Rate Map (DFIRM). If nothing shows on the map, it may be that there are no flood zones in the current extent of the map.
• Zoom In : Click this button and then drag a box on the map to zoom in.
• Full Extent : Click this button to zoom out to the full exent of the state.
• Zoom Previous : Click this button to zoom back to the previous map extent. If you have not zoomed the map yet, this button will be deactivated.
• Zoom Next : Click this button to zoom to the next map extent. If you are at the most recent map extent, this button will be deactivated.
• Pan : Click this button and then click and hold on the map to drag it in any direction you would like to move. Release the button to refresh the map.
• Identify : Click this button and then click on a piece of property in the map. The detailed ownership information will show in the Property Detail section.
• Help: Opens and closes this dialog box.