The Hohenwald 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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12° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1953. Next is 14° in 1969.
Hohenwald’s center stands about 970 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 750 ft to 990 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows St. Louis Limestone and Warsaw Limestone, from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 41×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gravel. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 0.4 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 Hohenwald reaches the Gulf of America by way of Rockhouse Creek, the Buffalo, the Duck, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,240 river miles.
Lake on the way: Pickwick 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 Hohenwald; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hohenwald has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. About 62 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hohenwald normally reaches 62° and falls to 36°. The record high is 81°, in 1964; the record low 14°, in 1969. The most rain on this date, 1.25 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1953 at Mount Pleasant 1 N, 20 miles east, 190 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
