The Lebanon 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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10° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1989. Next is 12° in 2014.
Lebanon’s center stands about 2,030 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,910 ft to 3,350 ft, a difference of 1,440 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Beartown Mountain, about 4,710 ft, 10 miles east.
The section below crosses 16 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×. 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, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Age: Ordovician to Silurian, 422 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. 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. 10 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 Lebanon reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Cedar Creek, Big Cedar Creek, the Clinch, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,850 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 Lebanon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lebanon has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 12 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Lebanon normally reaches 58° and falls to 31°. The record high is 73°, in 1994; the record low 10°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.42 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1989 at Lebanon, 2 miles east, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
