White Oak Mountain is one of a series of paralleling
ridges running approximately north-northeast in the
Tennessee Valley between the
Cumberland Plateau/
Mountains to the west and the
Blue Ridge Mountains to the east. The ridge averages 1,368 feet above sea level, the highest point being 1,495 feet. The ridge begins on the north side of Ringgold Gap, the site of an
1863 Civil War battle, in
Catoosa County just east of
Ringgold.
Interstate 75,
US 41/
76, and a
CSX Railroad run through this gap. The ridge continues to the south as
Taylor Ridge, although it is part of the same geologic formation. The ridge has several gaps through which major highways run, including (from south to north)
SR 320 near East Brainerd, Standifer Gap Road,
SR 317 near
Collegedale, and
US 11/
64 near
Ooltewah in Dead Man's Gap. North of Ooltewah, the
Hamilton-
Bradley County line follows the westernmost part of the rudge. Southwest of Cleveland,
I-75 crosses the ridge in an artificially cut gap. West of Cleveland,
SR 312 crosses the ridge in Mahan Gap. The ridge ends just south of the community of
Georgetown. ==References==