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Moss, Tennessee

unincorporated community in Clay County, Tennessee

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ6916507 ↗
Source-derived summary

Moss is an unincorporated community in Clay County, Tennessee, United States.

Geography

Moss is located 6.8 miles (10.9 km) west-northwest of Celina along Tennessee State Route 52. The highway's junction with Tennessee State Route 51, which connects the area to Tompkinsville, Kentucky, lies just west of the community.

Post office

Moss has a post office with ZIP code 38575.

Editorial summary

“Moss, Tennessee” enters the record as unincorporated community in Clay County, Tennessee. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moss, Tennessee and unincorporated can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 59-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Moss, Tennessee and unincorporated.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Moss, Tennessee” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Moss, Tennessee and unincorporated provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6916507. Authority coordinates are 36.589, -85.617. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Moss, Tennessee”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Moss, Tennessee primary sources, Moss, Tennessee archive and Moss research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Moss, Tennessee”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Moss, Tennessee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.