| Official Name: | Beech Bluff, Tennessee |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | Tennessee#USA |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Tennessee |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Madison |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 11.39 |
| Area Land Km2: | 11.39 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 4.40 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 4.40 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 379 |
| Population Density Km2: | 33.29 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 86.21 |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Ft: | 384 |
| Coordinates: | 35.5964°N -88.6314°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 38313 |
| Area Code: | 731 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 1305050 |
Beech Bluff is an unincorporated community on the east-central edge of Madison County, Tennessee, United States. The area ZIP code is 38313.[3]
The area which is now Beech Bluff was first inhabited by the Chickasaw, from whom an earthwork remains.[4] In 1852, a post office was established at Beech Bluff,[5] which was then also known as Homer and used as a summer resort.[6] After a section of the Tennessee Midland Railway was built through the area between 1888 and 1890, the name of the community was officially settled as Beech Bluff,[7] deriving its appellation from a large grove of native beech trees near a local bluff.[8] By 1897, the population had grown to approximately three hundred.[9] The community was historically home to a high school,[10] founded as a one-room schoolhouse in 1885 and closed during desegregation in 1977.[11] It later became a grade school called Beech Bluff Elementary[12] before it was converted into a recreation center in 2016.[13]
Beech Bluff is built on deposits of loess which have developed brown or grayish brown silt loam soils. These are mapped as Grenada, Memphis or Lexington series where drainage is good, and Calloway in somewhat poorly drained areas.[14]