Lookout Mountain

Featured view

Lookout Mountain

Total population

2,111

Median home value

$855,300

86.8%

Bachelor's+

Median income

$201,000

Lookout Mountain$201k

National$74k

Elevation564 m

Land area1.3 km²

Coordinates34.99°, -85.35°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Lookout Mountain is a town in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,058 at the 2020 census. Bordering its sister city of Lookout Mountain, Georgia to the south, Lookout Mountain is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Demographics & economy

Source: US Census Bureau — American Community Survey, 5-year estimates.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Lauren Alaina

American singer & songwriter (born 1994)

B

Bob Burcham

racecar driver

B

Buck Varner

American baseball player (1930-2000)

Charles Thompson

Cherokee chief

E

Eric Martin

American racing driver

P

Pete Brown

American football player (1930-2001)

William Potter Ross

Cherokee leader (1820-1891)

Ron Vann

American football player

A

Armistead Neely

US tennis player

J

Jesse Shaver

American botanist (1888-1961)

G

George H. Barker

American football player (1901-1986)

Frank Walker Caldwell

American propeller engineer and designer (1889-1974)

O

Oliver Franklin Reeves

Poet Laureate of Georgia (1944) and Atlanta (1952)

O

Otis Starks

American baseball player

G

Garnett Norman

American baseball player

P

Porter Wear Johnson

physicist

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Tennessee

• Ridgeside
  6.5 mi away
• Whiteside
  7.7 mi away
• Walden
  11.9 mi away
• Powells Crossroads
  15.2 mi away
• Sequatchie
  16 mi away
• Ooltewah
  17.6 mi away
• Collegedale
  17.7 mi away · pop. 11,330
• New Hope
  17.9 mi away · pop. 862
• Mowbray Mountain
  20.7 mi away
• South Pittsburg
  20.8 mi away
• Soddy-Daisy
  21.1 mi away
• Griffith Creek
  22.1 mi away

Browse all places in Tennessee →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Lookout Mountain

The Lookout Mountain Mortons and their descendants

Donna Morton Morgan · 1989

Guide book to Lookout mountain and brief account of battles fought near Chattanooga, Tennessee ..

Clarence W. Baker · 1876

History of the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, Chattanooga, Tennessee

1988

Lookout Mountain

William F. Hull · 2009

Tennessee Summits

Johnny Molloy · 2025

Point Park, Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga Battlefields

1955

Views

Milton Barlow Ochs · 2018

Chattanooga and Lookout Mt. Scenery

A. Wittemann · 1885

Search results from Open Library.