Editing Wartburg, Tennessee (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Wartburg-from-Watertank-tn2.jpg|thumb|View of Wartburg with [[Lone Mountain State Forest|Lone Mountain]] on the left]]

Wartburg is situated amidst the [[Crab Orchard Mountains]], a sub-range of the [[Cumberland Mountains]], near the eastern edge of the [[Cumberland Plateau]].  Bird Mountain dominates the area east of Wartburg, rising from its base at the edge of the city and stretching for some {{convert|10|mi|km}} to its {{convert|3142|ft|m|adj=on}} summit at [[Frozen Head State Park]].  The [[Emory River]], its source near the summit of Bird, flows westwardly along the mountain's northern base, passing just north of Wartburg, and turning south before dropping off the plateau and emptying into the [[Watts Bar Lake]] impoundment of the [[Tennessee River]].  The [[Obed River]] flows eastwardly from [[Cumberland County, Tennessee|Cumberland County]] through a scenic gorge before emptying into the Emory just west of Wartburg.

Wartburg is situated around the junction of [[U.S. Route 27]], which connects the city to [[Kentucky]] to the north and [[Harriman, Tennessee|Harriman]] and [[Interstate 40]] to the south, and State Route 62, which connects Wartburg to [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee|Oak Ridge]] to the east and the rural areas of Morgan County and [[Fentress County, Tennessee|Fentress County]] to the west.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|1.0|sqmi|km2}}, all of it land.