The Eagleville plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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81° on Nov. 15, 1958, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1891. Next is 80° in 1931.
Eagleville’s center stands about 790 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 720 ft to 1,140 ft, a difference of 420 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Versailles Knob, about 1,290 ft, 7 miles east-southeast.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 33×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Limestone, calcarenite. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Eagleville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Cheatham Branch, the Harpeth, the Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,300 river miles.
Lake on the way: Bards Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Eagleville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Eagleville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 54 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Eagleville normally reaches 62° and falls to 37°. The record high is 79°, in 1964; the record low 14°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 3.26 in, fell in 1915.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1891 at Franklin Sewage Plant, 18 miles northwest, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
