Rarity Bay is a

golf course community A golf course community is a type of residential Subdivision (land), housing development built around a golf course. History Temple Terrace, Florida is often described as the first planned golf-course community in the United States, dating fro ...

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 Loudon and

Monroe Monroe or Monroes may refer to: People and fictional characters * Monroe (surname) * Monroe (given name) * James Monroe, 5th President of the United States * Marilyn Monroe, actress and model Places United States * Monroe, Arkansas, an unincorp ...

counties,

Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...

, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. its population during the census was 885. It is in the southern part of Loudon County and the northern part of Monroe County, occupying a

peninsula A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula. Etymology The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...

Tellico Reservoir Tellico Dam is a concrete gravity and earthen embankment dam on the Little Tennessee River that was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Loudon County, Tennessee. Planning for a dam structure on the Little Tennessee was reported ...

, with the

Little Tennessee River The Little Tennessee River (known locally as the Little T) is a tributary of the Tennessee River that flows through the Blue Ridge Mountains from Georgia, into North Carolina, and then into Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. It dra ...

to the southeast and the cove of Bat Creek to the northwest.

Tennessee State Route 72 State Route 72 (SR 72) is a state highway in the eastern portion of U.S. state of Tennessee. It travels through the towns of Vonore and Loudon. Route description Roane County SR 72 begins in Roane County at an intersection with SR 58 ...

runs along the western edge of the CDP, leading south to U.S. Route 411 in Vonore and north to Loudon.

Demographics

References

2 Populated places in Loudon County, Tennessee Census-designated places in Loudon County, Tennessee Populated places in Monroe County, Tennessee Census-designated places in Monroe County, Tennessee Census-designated places in Tennessee Tennessee Valley Authority {{MonroeCountyTN-geo-stub