The Murfreesboro 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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13° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1890. Next is 14° in 1940.
Murfreesboro’s center stands about 620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 560 ft to 650 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Prater Hill, about 1,350 ft, 12 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Stones River Group; Ridley Limestone, from the Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old.
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 26×. 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 16 mi of the line.
Limestone. 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 1 mi of the line.
Limestone, calcarenite. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 0.8 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 Murfreesboro reaches the Gulf of America by way of the West Fork Stones, the Stones, the Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,280 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 Murfreesboro; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Murfreesboro has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Murfreesboro normally reaches 61° and falls to 37°. The record high is 78°, in 1964; the record low 17°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 3.40 in, fell in 1915.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1890 at Murfreesboro 5 N, 5 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
