The La Vergne 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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83° on Nov. 11, 1989, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1871. Next is 81° in 1958.
La Vergne’s center stands about 590 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 490 ft to 810 ft, a difference of 320 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sumner Knob, about 1,270 ft, 10 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Stones River Group; Lebanon Limestone, from the Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 29×. 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 9 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 3 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 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 La Vergne reaches the Gulf of America by way of Finch Branch, the Stones, the Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,260 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Bards Lake and Duncan Lake (historical).
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of La Vergne; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
La Vergne has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 5 inches of snow.
On November 14 La Vergne normally reaches 62° and falls to 39°. The record high is 80°, in 1973; the record low 18°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 3.79 in, fell in 1915.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 from the Nashville Area threaded record (Nashville International Airport, 9 miles northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
