19.8 acres of farm and timber land near Erwin, Unicoi County
This 19.8-acre farm and timber parcel was last deeded in Jul 1989, has 1,285 ft of road frontage on E Erwin Rd and sits outside FEMA's high-risk flood zone.
515 Boyd St, Erwin, TN · Parcel 023N H 034.00
2026 roll, county file October 2026
At a glance
- BuildZoning not on file · 2 buildings mapped (satellite)
- Ground2% wetlands · soils very limited for septic
- AccessFronts a public road
- ValueTax value $382k, 2026 roll · no priced sale · deed Jul 1989
- Acres19.8
- Land typeFarm and timber
- ZoningWe have not collected a zoning map for Town of Erwin yet
- Flood zoneX · minimal flood hazard
- Wetlands2% of the parcelNational Wetlands Inventory
- Tax value (county)$382kFrom the county’s last revaluation, not a market price · 2026 roll
- Last saleNo priced sale · deed Jul 1989
- Road accessHas road accessRoads: OpenStreetMap (Geofabrik extract), Oct 2026
- Road frontage1,285 ft on E Erwin RdRoad map name; the county roll's address reads Boyd St
Land facts
From public records and official maps, each with its source and date.
- Who zones itTown of ErwinCensus city limits, Jan 2025
- Septic (soils)Very limitedUSDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), septic absorption fields · Oct 2026
- Nearest public wastewater plantAbout 1 mile (straight line) · Erwin Utilities AuthorityEPA ECHO discharge permits for publicly owned treatment works, Oct 2026 · Not a sewer line at this lot. Plants that do not discharge to a river or stream (spray fields, percolation ponds) are not on EPA's list, so one could be closer
- Ground elevationAbout 1,737–1,873 ft above sea level; average slope 30.3%USGS 3DEP 1/3 arc-second (about 10 m), NAVD88; about ±1–2 ft · Oct 2026
- HighwaysTN 107 is 0.6 mi away and I-26 exit 37 is 0.8 mi away, in a straight lineOpenStreetMap (Geofabrik extract) · Oct 2026
- Nearest fire stationAbout 0.3 miles (straight line) · Erwin Fire DepartmentUSGS National Structures Dataset, fire and EMS stations, Oct 2026 · straight line, not road miles. Insurers' fire protection class (ISO) counts road miles to a responding station, often 5 or fewer. A station missing from the federal list would be closer
- Nearest emergency roomAbout 11 miles (straight line) · Johnson City Medical CenterCMS Care Compare hospital list (hospitals that report an emergency department), located by the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, Jul 2026 · straight line, not road miles or drive time. Names as filed with Medicare. Veterans', military, children's and psychiatric hospitals are not counted
Services and surroundings
What serves the area around this parcel, from federal and state maps. Area facts, not a survey of the lot.
- USDA home loan areaInside an eligible areaHousehold income limits also apply. USDA Rural Development map, edited Jul 2023.
- Public land nearbyTown Of Erwin, 0.2 miCity land, open to the public. 109 acres. Being nearby does not give access or hunting rights. USGS protected areas map (PAD-US 4.1).
School district and farmland
Public federal records, each with its source and date.
- School districtUnicoi County School DistrictGrades pre-K–12 · NCES EDGE school district boundaries, school year 2024–25 (Census TIGER 2025 lines), released Mar 2026. A district, not an assigned school
- Farmland classNot prime farmlandMap unit Shouns loam, 25 to 35 percent slopes, about 65% of the parcel · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), survey area TN171, version Aug 2026
- Crop productivity (NCCPI)0.16 of 1National Commodity Crop Productivity Index 3.0 of the main soil, Shouns; higher is more productive for non-irrigated commodity crops · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), version Aug 2026
- Land capability classClass 6e of 8: generally unsuited to tilled crops (erosion)Non-irrigated, Shouns; class 1 has the fewest limits · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), version Aug 2026
- GreenbeltTaxed on its use valueA use value below market on the county record: Tennessee's greenbelt program for farm, forest and open-space land (T.C.A. 67-5-1001). Leaving it brings rollback taxes (T.C.A. 67-5-1008) · Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury parcel file, Oct 2026
- Cropland rent$58.50 an acre a yearCounty average, non-irrigated, 2026 · USDA NASS county cash rents survey, released August 21, 2026
District details at NCES: Unicoi County School District
Crops and forest
Public federal records, each with its source and year. Satellite classifications, not farm records.
- Land cover (CDL)Deciduous forest 2025; developed (open space) 2021–2024No crop in these years; the most common class in the 90 m around the parcel's map point, from satellite imagery · USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer 2021–2025
- Forest type (LANDFIRE)Eastern Cool Temperate Urban Deciduous ForestDeveloped-Upland Deciduous Forest, developed; the most common vegetation type in the 90 m around the map point · LANDFIRE 2024 Existing Vegetation Type (USGS / USFS)
- Hydric soilsNone mappedShare of the outline on soils rated hydric: the soil test of a wetland determination and of an NRCS wetland reserve easement (ACEP-WRE) · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO)
- CRP rental rate (county)$49 an acre a yearThe county's 2026 average dryland soil rental rate (was $74): the base of a new Conservation Reserve contract's yearly rent; each field's rate follows its soils · USDA FSA, CRP 2026 county average soil rental rates
Soil for septic and building
Soils here are rated very limited for a septic drain field. They rate very limited for a house with or without a basement. The main soil shrinks and swells little as it wets and dries.
- Septic drain fieldVery limitedLimits: slope, slow water movement
- House, no basementVery limitedLimit: slope
- House with basementVery limitedLimit: slope
- Shrink-swellLowLinear extensibility about 1.5% at 10 to 39 in. deep
A soil-survey screening of the parcel's main soil, not a perc test. A septic permit needs the local health department's site evaluation, and a foundation design needs a soil test on the lot.
Utility service areas
Public service-area maps, each with its source and date. An area, not a connection at this parcel.
- Electric service areaInside the service area of Town of Erwin, Mountain Electric Co-op, Inc or French Broad Electric Membership Corp (approximate)The mapped areas overlap here · HIFLD electric retail service territories, frozen 2025 copy, edited Aug 2025; approximate, confirm with the utility.
- Water system areaInside the service area of Erwin Utilities AuthorityPublic water system TN0000231 · Vanderbilt Drinking Water Justice Lab water system boundaries, from TDEC and TDH records, edited Mar 2026. Not a water line at the lot.
Environmental records
Public state and federal lists, each with its agency and date. A record is not a finding about this parcel.
- Red flags6 environmental lists checked · state remediation sites, dry cleaners and landfills not checked · tank releases reported after 2021 not checkedGroundwork check of public lists: U.S. EPA Office of Underground Storage Tanks (from state records), as of 2021; U.S. EPA, as of Oct 2026; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as of Aug 31, 2026; USGS Gap Analysis Project, as of 2025
Mapped ground hazards
Mapped features from USGS maps, each with its agency and date. Distances are from the parcel's map point; a mapped area is not a finding about this parcel. Not checked here: field-surveyed sinkholes (Tennessee publishes no statewide sinkhole inventory), abandoned mines, oil and gas wells, landslides.
- Karst depressions (sinkhole terrain)None mapped within 1/4 miUSGS: Depressions in karst areas of Tennessee (TNBMP elevation data), Ladd and Carmichael 2025, as of Jun 2025. USGS modelled these from Tennessee base-map elevation data in the state's karst regions; not field-checked; ponds, lakes and depressions outside the karst regions left out
Ground screening
Public geologic maps flag karst ground (where sinkholes can form) and landslides near this parcel. Screening, not a geotechnical survey.
- KarstIn a karst area (dolomite or marble can form sinkholes)USGS
- Landslide susceptibilityHigh landslide susceptibilityUSGS
Sources & methodWhere these lines come from
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): Karst in the United States: a digital map compilation and database (Weary and Doctor, Open-File Report 2014-1156), as of Jul 2014. A national map compiled from state geologic maps at 1:24,000 to 1:500,000; USGS says it should not be used to draw site-specific boundaries. Left out: soluble rock the map shows buried under glacial or other deposits (any depth), units whose main rock is sand, clay, shale or another insoluble rock even where the map files them as carbonate or evaporite terrain, and sandstone, volcanic and piping pseudokarst; the page says nothing there.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): Slope-relief threshold landslide susceptibility models for the United States (Mirus and others, nonlinear n10 model, 90 m), as of Aug 2024. Each 90 m map cell counts how many of its 81 smaller 10 m cells are steep, high-relief ground of the kind where U.S. landslides are recorded (0 to 81). We say 'high' only where the cell at the parcel's map point counts 61 or more (about three-quarters or more); USGS notes the highest counts capture most recorded landslides. Below that we say nothing. A national 90 m model; it does not look at soil, drainage or what is built on the ground.
Distances are from the parcel's map point. Screening, not a geotechnical survey. A soil or geotechnical engineer can say what the ground under a building site will do.
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Home facts
- Satellite-mapped structures
- 2 buildings, about 5,820 sq ft of footprint in all (largest 4,370 sq ft) (FEMA USA Structures, 2026)
- Bedrooms, bathrooms, living area, year built
- Not in this county's published parcel file
Property tax
Tennessee Comptroller 2025 tax rates; Comptroller Unicoi County assessment data, as of Oct 2026
- Tax rate
- 41.617 mills (Unicoi County + City of Erwin, 2025)
- Estimated annual tax
- ~$3,150Estimate before exemptions (tax relief, tax freeze, greenbelt): the Assessor's $75,775 assessment (25% of the $303,100 appraisal on greenbelt use value) × 41.617 mills; based on the current appraisal; your 2025 bill may differ if the appraisal changed
Tennessee 2026 county taxes: due since October 5; pay by the end of February 2027 to avoid interest.
Sources: Tennessee Code Annotated 67-1-701, 67-5-2010 and 67-1-404, as listed in the Comptroller of the Treasury’s assessment calendar. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Value history
2026: $381,700 ($145,700 land, $236,000 improvements)
Roll values set for property tax · Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury county parcel and assessment files · as of Oct 2026
What land sells for nearby
Land in Unicoi County sold for:
- 10 acres or more: $4,700–$7,000 an acre (12 sales, Oct 2025–Sep 2026); median $5,700
- Lots under 1 acre: $15k–$42k a lot (13 sales, Oct 2025–Sep 2026); median $30k
- 1 to 10 acres: $23.5k–$34.0k an acre (12 sales, Oct 2025–Sep 2026); median $27k
The middle half (25th to 75th percentile) and the median of arm's-length single-parcel land sales. Each size uses its own months (the shortest of 12, 24 or 36 that holds enough sales), so the sizes' counts need not add up to another figure on this page. Source: the county's own recorded sales, arm's-length by the county's own flag. Recorded sales, not an estimate of any parcel.
Home values in Unicoi County rose about 75% over 5 years and 5% in the last year (FHFA, 2025).
Owner: on the county assessment roll (not shown here) · Request removal
Hazards
FEMA National Risk Index for this census tract, not this parcel. As of Dec 2025.
- Lightning
- Relatively high
- Cold wave
- Relatively moderate
- Strong wind
- Relatively moderate
- Winter weather
- Relatively moderate
- Tornado
- Relatively low
- Riverine flooding
- Relatively low
- Earthquake
- Relatively low
- Ice storm
- Relatively low
- Hail
- Relatively low
- Landslide
- Very low
- Wildfire
- Very low
- Heat wave
- No ratingNo expected annual loss computed for this tract
Recorded flood claims
OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, as of Sep 2026
- Claims since 1978
- Fewer than 10Insured buildings in this census tract
Federal disaster declarations
Federal disaster declarations in Unicoi County since 2000: 12 (most recently Severe Winter Storm, January 2026).
- 4 severe storms
- 2 biological emergencies (COVID-19)
- 2 tropical storms
- 2 winter storms
- 1 flood
- 1 hurricane
Development nearby
Little new development: under 5 acres within a mile turned from farmland, forest or other open land into developed land in 2020–2025.
- 2020–2025
- Under 5 acresWithin a mile, open land turned developed
- 2015–2025
- About 8 acresThe same, over 10 years
- Typical in Unicoi County
- Under 5 acresThe middle of the county's land, 2020–2025
Neighborhood (Census)
Census ACS 2020–2024 5-year, as of Jan 2026
- Median household income
- $66,500± $18,686 · census tract (block group sample too small)
- Median home value (owner-reported)
- $184,800± $18,224 · census tract (block group sample too small)
- Median rent (gross)
- $624± $69
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 47%± 13 pts
- Median year homes were built
- 1963± 10 yr
- Average commute (one way)
- 18 min± 5 min · census tract (not published for block groups)
- Population
- 949± 296
Figures for the census block group around this parcel (a few hundred homes), not this property. This product uses Census Bureau data but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
Sources & methodSources, county file October 2026
At a glance: each fact's source and date
Each figure in the grid above, where it comes from and the date of the file or map we read.
Acres: Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury county parcel and assessment files, county file Oct 17, 2026.
Land type: Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury county parcel and assessment files, county file Oct 17, 2026.
Zoning: Our zoning map coverage, map built Oct 17, 2026.
Flood zone: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, as of Sep 27, 2026.
Wetlands: USFWS National Wetlands Inventory, as of Oct 9, 2026.
Tax value (county): Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury county parcel and assessment files, county file Oct 17, 2026.
Last sale: Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury county parcel and assessment files, sales through Sep 2026.
Road access: Roads: OpenStreetMap (Geofabrik extract), Oct 2026.
Road frontage: OpenStreetMap (Geofabrik extract), as of Oct 9, 2026.
Soil for septic and building
Source: USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), survey area TN171, version Aug 2026, read through NRCS Soil Data Access.
The parcel's main soil map unit covers about 65% of its outline: Shouns loam, 25 to 35 percent slopes. Its main component is Shouns (100% of the unit).
The ratings are NRCS's own map-unit interpretations (dominant condition): ENG - Septic Tank Absorption Fields, ENG - Dwellings W/O Basements and ENG - Dwellings With Basements. The limits listed are the features NRCS names for the main component. Shrink-swell is that component's linear extensibility, depth-weighted from 25 to 100 cm, the layer NRCS's homesite rule reads; NRCS classes: low under 3%, moderate 3 to 6%, high 6 to 9%, very high 9% or more.
A screening, not a perc test or a soil boring: soils vary inside a map unit (survey scale about 1:12,000 to 1:24,000), and fill or grading may have changed the lot.
Home facts
FEMA USA Structures (FEMA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), release of Sep 2026, traced from satellite imagery of 2016-2025. Building outlines of about 450 sq ft and up traced from satellite imagery, counted where the outline's centre lies inside the parcel outline. A footprint is the building's outline seen from above, not its living area; the county's record does not list a building for this parcel. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Property tax
Rates: Tennessee Comptroller, tax year 2025 (the 2026 rates are not loaded yet). The estimate is the county's taxable value times those rates, before exemptions; it is not a bill. The county trustee's bill is the official figure.
What land sells for nearby
This tracks home values, not land values. Land buyers read it as a sign of demand nearby: where homes gain value, builders and buyers follow. A vacant lot can move differently.
How: the change in FHFA's annual county index from 2020 and 2024 to 2025, rounded. The index follows repeat sales and refinance appraisals of the same single-family homes with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac mortgages. It is in today's dollars, not adjusted for inflation, and FHFA calls these local indexes developmental. Where FHFA's sample is too small it publishes no figure, and none prints here.
Source: FHFA House Price Index, all-transactions, annual county index, 2025, last updated March 31, 2026. Method: Bogin, Doerner and Larson, “Local House Price Dynamics: New Indices and Stylized Facts”, FHFA Working Paper 16-01.
Hazards
Ratings come from FEMA's National Risk Index (v1.20, planning-level) and the public federal and state maps named on each row, not a private climate model. FEMA rates each census tract from expected annual losses, community resilience and social vulnerability, for planning; it is not an assessment of this parcel. No rating: FEMA computed no expected annual loss for this census tract; not a statement about this parcel.
Recorded flood claims
Insured buildings near this parcel, not the parcel itself. FEMA counts claims on buildings with NFIP flood insurance, so land that never had an insured building has no claims to count. The count is the parcel's census block group when it has 10 or more, else its tract's; a count under 10 prints as "Fewer than 10". Source: OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3.
Federal disaster declarations
Each federal declaration whose designated areas include the county, declared from January 2000 on, counted once by its FEMA disaster number. An emergency declaration and a major-disaster declaration for the same storm are two declarations, as FEMA numbers them. Declarations for tribal lands alone are not counted. The date shown is when the most recent incident began. Types are FEMA's incident types: an evacuation emergency for a storm elsewhere (Hurricane Katrina, 2005) counts under that storm. By kind: 7 major disasters and 5 emergencies.
Source: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset: Disaster Declarations Summaries - v2, as of October 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data.
Development nearby
Counted from USGS Annual NLCD land cover (USGS Annual NLCD Collection 1.2, 30 m maps made from Landsat imagery, 2015, 2020 and 2025; public domain, DOI 10.5066/P94UXNTS). A 30 m square counts when it was forest, shrub, grassland, pasture, cropland or wetland in the start year and developed in 2025: NLCD's developed classes, from lawns, parks and roads to dense buildings. The squares are summed over the land within about a mile of this parcel's center on a 240 m grid, so the figures are rounded. "Most of the county" compares the same one-mile figure across the county's land. A satellite land-cover map misses some changes and mislabels a few, so read it as a guide to how fast the area is building out, not a survey. As of 2025 land cover.
Neighborhood (Census)
± is the Census 90% margin of error; a figure comes from the larger census tract when the block group's sample is too small.
Tax value
Tax value from the county’s last revaluation, not a market price. County file, October 2026.
Appraised value (the county assessor's appraisal at its last reappraisal), not a market estimate. Tennessee taxes 25% of it for homes and farms and 40% for commercial and industrial property.
Parcel outline
The outline and its edge lengths are measured on the parcel map the map draws; the aerial loads from the public imagery named under it.
Source
Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury county parcel and assessment files, county file Oct 17, 2026.
Record
Public records can be wrong; check before you act.
Parcel: 023N H 034.00
Coordinates: 36.1437° N, 82.4082° W