Blanche is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in Lincoln County,

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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. It is in the southwest part of the county and is bordered to the southeast by Taft.

Tennessee State Route 110 State Route 110 (SR 110) is a Tennessee state highway in Limestone County, Alabama and Giles and Lincoln counties in Tennessee. It connects Ardmore, Tennessee/Ardmore, Alabama with Fayetteville, Tennessee. Route description SR 110 begins in ...

passes through Blanche, leading southwest to Ardmore and northeast to Fayetteville, the Lincoln

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. The east side of Blanche drains to Pinnel Creek, and the west side drains Kelly Creek; both creeks flow north to the Elk River, a southwest-flowing tributary of the

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. The south part of the CDP drains to Limestone Creek, which flows south to the Tennessee River in

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Demographics

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Populated places in Lincoln County, Tennessee Census-designated places in Lincoln County, Tennessee Census-designated places in Tennessee {{LincolnCountyTN-geo-stub