Blanche, TN

Blanche is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States. Blanche was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. Blanche is in the southwest part of the county and is bordered to the southeast by Taft. The short version is that Blanche carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Blanche: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Tennessee State Route 110 passes through Blanche, leading southwest 7 miles to Ardmore and northeast 18 miles to Fayetteville, the Lincoln county seat. The east side of Blanche drains to Pinnel Creek, and the west side drains Kelly Creek; both creeks flow north to the Elk River, a southwest-flowing tributary of the Tennessee River.