Data about the top and bottom altitude, depth from land surface and/or the thickness of three geologic units in Tennessee were converted into geospatial format for this USGS data release from previously published paper maps and converted into digital formats for use by the public. The three geologic units were the Chattanooga Shale of Mississippian-Devonian age (Moore and Horton, 1999), the Wells Creek Dolomite of middle Ordovician age (Smith, 1959), and the Knox Group of lower Ordovician age (Newcome, 1954). These geologic units represent important geologic horizons across Tennessee. Geologic structure maps provide important information and, in digital format, support investigative and modeling efforts pertaining to water and mineral resources. Prior to this work, the paper source maps used for this data release existed in limited quantities, mainly restricted to the Nashville, TN offices of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) and United States Geological Survey (USGS). The work for this project included (1) scanning and georeferencing original paper maps to create georeferenced images (GRI), (2) digitizing well location points and contour lines, (3) populating well and contour attribute tables with data from maps and associated reports, and (4) when possible, interpolating raster surfaces for the three geologic units of top and bottom altitude, depth from land surface to the top and bottom surface, and thickness. All raster surfaces were aligned to a modified version of the National Hydrogeologic Grid (Clark and others, 2018) to support USGS Lower Mississippi Gulf Water Science Center efforts to create a statewide hydrogeologic framework. All horizontal coordinated data are projected to NAD 1983 USGS Contiguous USA Albers. The raster vertical coordinate information was referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). This data release includes GRIs, vector data of the wells and mapped contours of top, bottom, or thickness, raster data, and related metadata files for each three geologic units under the associated child item tab. Dataset types can be identified by the following naming convention: i_ = georeferenced map images (GRI) po_ = points c_ = contours and closed depressions f_= faults and other structural features p_ = extent polygon ra_ = altitude raster rd_ = depth from land surface raster rt_ = thickness raster The datasets included on this main landing page are as follows: project_metadata.xml – metadata file for general project information studyarea_ext.zip: p_chttshl_ext.shp - mapped extent of the Chattanooga Shale in Tennessee p_wllscr_ext.shp - mapped extent of the Wells Creek Dolomite in Tennessee p_knx_ext.shp - mapped extent of the Knox Group in Tennessee The datasets included on the child item pages are as follows: Chattanooga Shale: geospatial geologic structural datasets in Tennessee: chttshl_metadata.xml - metadata file chttshl_alldata.zip: GRI/ i_chttshl_btm.tif - structure contour map of the bottom of the Chattanooga Shale (Moore and Horton, 1999) i_chttshl_data.tif - map of data used to create structure and isopach maps (Moore and Horton, 1999) i_chttshl_thk.tif - thickness contour map for the Chattanooga Shale (Moore and Horton, 1999) polygons/ p_knx_ext.shp - study area extent for the Chattanooga Shale p_hohenwald.shp - polygon for extend of the Hohenwald Platform (Moore and Horton, 1999) - supplemental data rasters/ ra_chttshl_btm.tif - altitude raster for the bottom of the Chattanooga Shale ra_chttshl_tp.tif - altitude raster for the top of the Chattanooga Shale rd_chttshl_btm.tif - depth from land surface raster of the bottom of the Chattanooga Shale rd_chttshl_tp.tif - depth from land surface raster of the top of the Chattanooga Shale rt_chttshl.tif - thickness raster for the Chattanooga Shale vectors/ c_chttshl_btm.shp - structure contours for the bottom of the Chattanooga Shale c_chttshl_btm_modified.shp - modified structure contours for the bottom