Beech Bluff, Tennessee
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Beech Bluff, Tennessee | |
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 Beech Bluff post office, 2019 | |
  Beech Bluff, Tennessee  Beech Bluff, Tennessee | |
| Coordinates: 35°35′47″N 88°37′53″W / 35.59639°N 88.63139°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Tennessee |
| County | Madison |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.40 sq mi (11.39 km2) |
| • Land | 4.40 sq mi (11.39 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 384 ft (117 m) |
| Population | |
• Total | 379 |
| • Density | 86.2/sq mi (33.29/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 38313 |
| Area code | 731 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1305050[3] |
Beech Bluff is an unincorporated community on the east-central edge of Madison County, Tennessee, United States.[3] The area ZIP code is 38313.[4]
The area which is now Beech Bluff was first inhabited by the Chickasaw, from whom an earthwork remains.[5] In 1852, a post office was established at Beech Bluff,[6] which was then also known as Homer[a] and used as a summer resort.[7] After a section of the Tennessee Midland Railway was built through the area between 1888 and 1890, the name of the community was officially settled as Beech Bluff,[8] deriving its appellation from a large grove of native beech trees near a local bluff.[9] By 1897, the population had grown to approximately three hundred.[10] The community was historically home to a high school,[11] founded as a one-room schoolhouse in 1885 and closed during desegregation in 1977.[12] It later became a grade school called Beech Bluff Elementary[13] before it was converted into a recreation center in 2016.[14]
