Essary Springs, TN

Essary Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hardeman County, Tennessee, United States. Essary Springs was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. Essary Springs is in the southeast corner of the county, bordered to the east by McNairy County and to the south by the state of Mississippi. The short version is that Essary Springs carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Essary Springs: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Essary Springs is 3 miles south of Pocahontas and 9 miles southeast of Middleton. The Hatchie River flows south to north through the community, eventually turning west to join the Mississippi River west of Covington. Essary Springs includes the Hatchie River.