The Strawberry Plains 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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85° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1955. Next is 82° in 1993.
Strawberry Plains’s center stands about 1,010 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 850 ft to 1,390 ft, a difference of 540 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Donehew Head, about 2,180 ft, 10 miles north-northwest.
The section below crosses 14 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 15×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 8 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Strawberry Plains reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Holston, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,680 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Guntersville Lake, White Lake (historical), Pickwick Lake and Cummings 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 Strawberry Plains; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Strawberry Plains has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Strawberry Plains normally reaches 62° and falls to 36°. The record high is 82°, in 1993; the record low 16°, in 1969. The most rain on this date, 0.48 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1955 at Sevierville, 10 miles south-southeast, 110 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
