Lewis Chapel, Tennessee
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Lewis Chapel 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 Sequatchie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,826. Its county seat is Dunlap. Sequatchie County is part of the Chattanooga, TN– GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hi ...
, United States. It is located in the eastern part of the county atop the Waldens Ridge.
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 ...
connects the community to Dunlap in the
Sequatchie Valley Sequatchie Valley is a relatively long and narrow valley in the U.S. state of Tennessee and, in some definitions, Alabama. It is generally considered to be part of the Cumberland Plateau region of the Appalachian Mountains; it was probably formed ...
to the west and Soddy-Daisy and the outskirts of
Chattanooga Chattanooga ( ) is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. It is located along the Tennessee River and borders Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the south. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, it is Tennessee ...
in the Tennessee Valley to the east. Lewis Chapel was probably named for the Reverend Edgar R. Lewis, an early minister in the area.Larry Miller,
Tennessee Place Names
' (Indiana University Press, 2001), p. 122.


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