Orme is a town in Marion County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 126 as of 2010. It is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Orme is rooted in a coal mining community known as Needmore, which was usual in the in front 1890s. Mining operations in the valley were slow to develop, however, due to the area’s superiority and nonattendance of standard means of transportation for the coal. In the late 1890s, Chattanooga businessman Frederick Gates purchased the Needmore mining operations, and began negotiating taking into account the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway to construct a branch parentage into the valley. After some hesitation, this railroad completely to construct the line in 1902.

After negotiating the construction of the branch line, Gates sold the Needmore operation to Richard Orme Campbell (1860–1912), who renamed the operation the “Campbell Coal and Coke Company”. He renamed the town of Needmore after his son, who was afterward named Richard Orme Campbell (the name “Orme” was the maiden say of the elder Campbell’s mother, Virginia Orme). Along behind mining facilities, Campbell built a commissary, an office building, workers’ cottages, schools, and a hotel. Within a few years, the town had grown to several thousand residents.

Campbell sold the Orme operation in 1905, and the further owners renamed the company, “Battle Creek Coal and Coke Company.” By 1912, the operation consisted of four drift mines, some reaching high up the walls of the Cumberland Plateau. Mule-drawn rail cars carried the mined coal to the mine entrances, where it was transferred to a locomotive. The locomotive then carried the coal to an upper tipple, which in perspective transferred it to a humiliate tipple. At its height, the mining operation was shipping 1,000 tons of coal per hours of daylight out of the valley. The operation was known for its “good coal, inaccessibility, irregular stratification, and consequently hard mining.”