| Name
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Image
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Date
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Location
|
County
|
Ownership
|
Description
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| Arnold Engineering Development Center Natural Areas
|
|
1974
|
|
Coffee
|
federal (Arnold Air Force Base)
|
Contains an extremely rare virgin swamp forest and a pristine example of an open marsh.
|
| Big Bone Cave
|
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|
1973
|
35°46′21″N 85°33′25″W / 35.7726°N 85.557°W / 35.7726; -85.557 (Big Bone Cave)
|
Van Buren
|
state
|
Cave where giant ground sloth bones were discovered.
|
| Cedar Glades
|
|
1973
|
36°04′25″N 86°18′41″W / 36.07366°N 86.31151°W / 36.07366; -86.31151 (Cedars of Lebanon State Park)
|
Wilson
|
state (Cedars of Lebanon State Park)
|
The largest and best remaining example of the cedar glade community.
|
| Conley Hole
|
|
1973
|
|
Grundy
|
private
|
One of the most spectacular and outstanding examples of a pit cave in the United States.
|
| Cumberland Caverns
|
|
1973
|
35°40′09″N 85°40′51″W / 35.669167°N 85.680833°W / 35.669167; -85.680833 (Cumberland Caverns)
|
Warren
|
private
|
Two interconnecting caves at least 27 miles (43 km) in extent.
|
| Dick Cove
|
|
1973
|
35°13′40″N 85°57′19″W / 35.227839°N 85.955392°W / 35.227839; -85.955392 (Dick Cove)
|
Franklin
|
private
|
A near virgin forest
|
| Grassy Cove Karst Area
|
|
1973
|
35°51′24″N 84°55′35″W / 35.856787°N 84.926373°W / 35.856787; -84.926373 (Grassy Cove)
|
Cumberland
|
private
|
One of the nation's best illustrations of karst development and underground drainage
|
| The Lost Sea
|
|
1974
|
35°32′08″N 84°25′52″W / 35.535556°N 84.431111°W / 35.535556; -84.431111 (Lost Sea)
|
Monroe
|
private
|
Cavern system that includes the largest known underground lake in the country.
|
| May Prairie
|
|
1974
|
35°27′01″N 86°01′20″W / 35.450232°N 86.022274°W / 35.450232; -86.022274 (May Prairie)
|
Coffee
|
state
|
Largest and best relict prairie remaining in Tennessee.
|
| McAnulty's Woods
|
|
1973
|
|
Hardeman
|
private
|
Only known example in western Tennessee of the upland forests of the Mississippi Embayment
|
| Piney Falls
|
|
1974
|
|
Rhea
|
state (Piney Falls State Natural Area)
|
Contains a rare virgin mixed mesophytic forest stand.
|
| Reelfoot Lake
|
|
1966
|
36°23′20″N 89°23′20″W / 36.388889°N 89.388889°W / 36.388889; -89.388889 (Reelfoot Lake)
|
Lake, Obion
|
federal (Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge)
|
Mosaic of habitats formed as a result of the New Madrid earthquake,
|
| Savage Gulf
|
|
1971
|
35°15′32″N 85°47′20″W / 35.259°N 85.789°W / 35.259; -85.789 (Savage Gulf)
|
Grundy
|
state (Savage Gulf State Natural Area)
|
A virgin forest.
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