Crossings / Tennessee
Tennessee
crossings.
Cities6810+ crossings each
Public crossings1,736at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates32%833 with no active device
Reported incidents338Form 57, since 2016
The federal crossing inventory lists 1,736 public at-grade crossings across the 68 Tennessee cities with at least ten of them. Memphis has the most at 157.
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates the most of them at 486, ahead of CSX Transportation at 343.
48% of those crossings carry no active warning device (crossbucks, a stop sign or nothing recorded) against 32% with gates.
Crossing counts follow how much track runs through a place, not how busy or how loud it is. A city with many short industrial spurs will list more crossings than one with a single mainline carrying far more trains.
Every Tennessee city on the inventory
| City | County | Crossings | Gated | Quiet zone | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis | Shelby | 157 | 38% | 6 | 98 |
| Knoxville | Knox | 132 | 37% | 0 | 20 |
| Nashville | Davidson | 130 | 40% | 4 | 46 |
| Chattanooga | Hamilton | 122 | 13% | 0 | 23 |
| Oak Ridge | Roane | 49 | 6% | 0 | 3 |
| Jackson | Madison | 44 | 20% | 0 | 6 |
| Morristown | Hamblen | 44 | 66% | 0 | 4 |
| Lebanon | Wilson | 40 | 38% | 4 | 9 |
| Johnson City | Washington | 36 | 53% | 0 | 13 |
| Lake City | Anderson | 31 | 23% | 0 | 1 |
| Greeneville | Greene | 29 | 69% | 0 | 7 |
| Clinton | Anderson | 28 | 32% | 0 | 4 |
| McMinnville | Warren | 28 | 4% | 0 | 0 |
| Paris | Henry | 27 | 7% | 0 | 0 |
| Humboldt | Gibson | 26 | 27% | 0 | 3 |
| Clarksville | Montgomery | 23 | 39% | 0 | 1 |
| Cleveland | Bradley | 23 | 52% | 0 | 3 |
| Lewisburg | Marshall | 23 | 35% | 0 | 9 |
| Soddy Daisy | Hamilton | 23 | 35% | 0 | 3 |
| Tullahoma | Coffee | 23 | 39% | 0 | 0 |
| Lawrenceburg | Lawrence | 22 | 9% | 0 | 0 |
| Manchester | Coffee | 22 | 5% | 0 | 0 |
| Milan | Gibson | 22 | 32% | 0 | 4 |
| Cookeville | Putnam | 21 | 0% | 0 | 1 |
| Bulls Gap | Hawkins | 20 | 25% | 0 | 6 |
| Union City | Obion | 20 | 20% | 0 | 1 |
| Columbia | Maury | 19 | 26% | 0 | 0 |
| Dyersburg | Dyer | 19 | 16% | 0 | 3 |
| Monterey | Putnam | 19 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Oliver Spgs | Roane | 19 | 26% | 0 | 0 |
| Benton | Polk | 18 | 61% | 0 | 0 |
| Ethridge | Lawrence | 18 | 11% | 0 | 0 |
| Alcoa | Blount | 17 | 29% | 0 | 3 |
| Jonesboro | Washington | 17 | 65% | 0 | 1 |
| McKenzie | Carroll | 17 | 12% | 0 | 6 |
| Dickson | Dickson | 16 | 44% | 0 | 9 |
| Harriman | Roane | 16 | 44% | 0 | 4 |
| New Tazewell | Claiborne | 16 | 13% | 0 | 1 |
| Gallatin | Sumner | 15 | 40% | 0 | 2 |
| Newport | Cocke | 15 | 20% | 0 | 1 |
| Centerville | Hickman | 14 | 7% | 0 | 0 |
| Jefferson City | Jefferson | 14 | 93% | 0 | 0 |
| Martin | Weakley | 14 | 36% | 0 | 0 |
| Sparta | White | 14 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Collierville | Shelby | 13 | 85% | 0 | 3 |
| Ducktown | Polk | 13 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Huntingdon | Carroll | 13 | 38% | 0 | 5 |
| Madisonville | Monroe | 13 | 54% | 0 | 0 |
| Ridgely | Lake | 13 | 0% | 0 | 1 |
| Athens | McMinn | 12 | 83% | 0 | 3 |
| Bluff City | Sullivan | 12 | 42% | 0 | 3 |
| Dayton | Rhea | 12 | 83% | 0 | 4 |
| Finley | Dyer | 12 | 17% | 0 | 1 |
| Loretto | Lawrence | 12 | 8% | 0 | 0 |
| Portland | Sumner | 12 | 92% | 0 | 4 |
| South Pittsburg | Marion | 12 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Brownsville | Haywood | 11 | 64% | 0 | 7 |
| Gleason | Weakley | 11 | 9% | 0 | 0 |
| Spring City | Rhea | 11 | 73% | 0 | 1 |
| Spring Hill | Williamson | 11 | 18% | 0 | 1 |
| Vonore | Loudon | 11 | 64% | 0 | 1 |
| Caryville | Campbell | 10 | 10% | 0 | 1 |
| Covington | Tipton | 10 | 100% | 0 | 2 |
| Jellico | Campbell | 10 | 10% | 0 | 0 |
| Medina | Gibson | 10 | 40% | 0 | 2 |
| Mt Pleasant | Maury | 10 | 30% | 0 | 2 |
| Tiptonville | Lake | 10 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Watertown | Wilson | 10 | 0% | 0 | 2 |
Only cities with at least ten public at-grade crossings appear here. A city missing from this table has fewer, not none.