Lone Chestnut is located on Clifton Bend in southeastern Decatur County on the road to the old Clifton ferry ramp. It is indicated on the U.S.G.S. Clifton quadrangle (1972). The cemetery is maintained but is nearly full within its present borders. Some space has been reused.
David Donahue recorded Lone Chestnut Cemetery December 27, 1996; updated it April 16, 2001; and checked and updated it December 2003. Margarett Alexander and Blanche Tuten on recorded the cemetery December 28, 1976. Their record appears in Decatur County, Tennessee Cemetery Records published by the Captain Nathaniel A. Wesson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Parsons, Tennessee, 1984, pp. 315-320. They note "about 90 unmarked graves."