The land was originally the home of the Cherokee Nation, who were mostly displaced to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears in 1838.

[2] Construction of the Top of World Estates by Roy and Charles Headrick was reported by the Knoxville News Sentinel in June 1965.

[4] The community lies in an area called The Flats, on a spur of Chilhowee Mountain in East Tennessee.

[5] The Foothills Parkway passes just to the northwest, and the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park lies just to the southeast.

[11] The Blount County Fire Protection District has its station #8 at 5714 Flats Road, on the east shore of the lake.