Cagle (also known as Cagle Mountain) 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 ...

in Sequatchie County, Tennessee, United States. It is concentrated around the intersection of

Tennessee State Route 111 State Route 111 (SR 111) is a north–south highway in Middle and East Tennessee. The road begins in Soddy-Daisy and ends north of Byrdstown in the community of Static, at the Tennessee/Kentucky state line. The length is . Route descr ...

and

Tennessee State Route 399 State Route 399 (SR 399) is east–west state highway in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee. It serves to connect the towns of Gruetli-Laager and Palmer to Cagle and the Savage Gulf State Natural Area portion of South Cumberland Sta ...

atop the

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in the western part of the county. Its elevation is . The

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passes through the community. Cagle was originally known as "Mount Pleasant" after a

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church established in the area in the 1840s. When a post office was established in the community 1880, it was named "Cagle" after a family of early settlers.Henry R. Camp, Robert B. Jones (ed.),
Tennessee County History Series: Sequatchie County
' (Memphis State University Press, 1984), p. 110. Cagle is home to a community center, fire department, and several small businesses.Ben Benton,
Cagle Fire Hall Project Resumes in Sequatchie County
" ''Chattanooga Times Free Press'', 1 April 2014.

References

Unincorporated communities in Sequatchie County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee {{SequatchieCountyTN-geo-stub