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Beech Bluff is an unincorporated community and census-designated place on the east-central edge of Madison County, Tennessee, east of Jackson, the county seat.

The Census Bureau counts Beech Bluff as a census-designated place, and the 2020 census recorded 379 residents there.

The Beech Bluff CDP covers about 4.40 square miles, all of it land.

The area was first inhabited by the Chickasaw, and a Chickasaw earthwork still remains in the community.

A post office was established at Beech Bluff in 1852, when the community was also known as Homer and was used as a summer resort.

After a section of the Tennessee Midland Railway was built through the area between 1888 and 1890, the community's name was officially settled as Beech Bluff.

The name Beech Bluff comes from a large grove of native beech trees that stood near a local bluff.

By 1897, Beech Bluff's population had grown to approximately 300 people.

The community's first school opened in 1885 as a one-room schoolhouse; its high school closed during desegregation in 1977, and the building later served as an elementary school before becoming a recreation center in 2016.

Beech Bluff's First Methodist Church was built in 1892.