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2021 Tennessee Floods
During the early morning of Saturday, August 21, 2021, very heavy rainfall resulted in widespread flash flooding across western Middle Tennessee, including the town of Waverly. In a catastrophic situation, much of a five-county area received up to a quarter of normal annual rainfall in under twelve hours, totaling up to . The town of Waverly was severely damaged by floodwater, with many homes and businesses destroyed and swept away. Numerous people became trapped, leading to widespread water rescues and several deaths. The event set the 24-hour rainfall record in Tennessee, with over of rain falling in McEwen. Meteorological synopsis A stalled frontal boundary west of Nashville led to training thunderstorms during the early morning hours of August 21, producing very heavy rainfall rates across the counties of Stewart, Houston, Dickson, Humphreys, and Hickman. Precipitable water values reached as high as at 7:00 a.m. CDT, besting the previous record of for that specific date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Tennessee
Middle Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of the U.S. state of Tennessee that composes roughly the central portion of the state. It is delineated according to state law as 41 of the state's 95 counties. Middle Tennessee contains the state's capital and largest city, Nashville, as well as Clarksville, the state's fifth largest city, and Murfreesboro, the state's sixth largest city and largest suburb of Nashville. The Nashville metropolitan area, located entirely within the region, is the most populous metropolitan area in the state, and the Clarksville metropolitan area is the state's sixth most populous. Middle Tennessee is both the largest, in terms of land area, and the most populous of the state's three Grand Divisions. Geographically, Middle Tennessee is composed of the Highland Rim, which completely surrounds the Nashville Basin. The Cumberland Plateau is located in the eastern part of the region. Culturally, Middle Tennessee is considered part of the Upland Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. The company operates as the leading subsidiary of CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. CSX Corporation (the parent of CSX Transportation) was formed in 1980 from the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries, two holding companies which controlled a number of railroads operating in the Eastern United States. Initially only a holding company itself, the subsidiaries that made up CSX Corporation were gradually merged, with this process completed in 1987. CSX Transportation formally came into existence in 1986, as the successor of Seaboard System Railroad. In 1999, CSX Transportation acquired approximately half of Conrail, in a joint purchase with competitor Norfolk Southern Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 40 In Tennessee
Interstate 40 (I-40) is part of the Interstate Highway System that spans from Barstow, California, to Wilmington, North Carolina. In Tennessee, I-40 traverses the entirety of the state from west to east, from the Mississippi River at the Arkansas border to the northern base of the Great Smoky Mountains at the North Carolina border. At a length of , the Tennessee segment of I-40 is the longest of the eight states on the route, and the longest Interstate Highway in Tennessee. Sometimes known as "Tennessee's Main Street", I-40 passes through Tennessee's three largest cities—Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville—and serves the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the United States. It crosses all of Tennessee's physiographical provinces and Grand Divisions—the Mississippi Embayment and Gulf Coastal Plain in West Tennessee, the Highland Rim and Nashville Basin in Middle Tennessee, and the Cumberland Plateau, Cumberland Mountains, Ridge-and-Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piney River (Middle Tennessee)
The Piney River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 8, 2011 tributary of the Duck River in Middle Tennessee in the United States. Via the Duck River, the Tennessee River, and the Ohio River, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed. The headwater tributaries of the Piney River rise in Dickson County, Tennessee, near the city of Dickson. Dickson is located on the "Tennessee Valley Divide", which corresponds for some distance with the downtown's Main Street. The western part of the town, the part in the Tennessee Valley (as opposed to the Cumberland Valley), is drained by the East Piney River, a tributary to the Piney. The city lakes, formerly a water supply source and the site of an early electrical power plant even before this, are on a Piney River tributary, as was a former city sewer plant, which was closed when a larger water intake was built further down on the Piney. The upper reaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee State Route 48
State Route 48 (SR 48) is a long north–south state highway in Middle Tennessee. It traverses six counties, and it is long. Route description Wayne, Perry, and Lewis Counties SR 48 begins as a primary state route in far northern Wayne County at a junction with SR 13. Then it travels through the southeastern corner of Perry County before entering Lewis County to intersect SR 20, and then U.S. Route 412 (US 412) and SR 99 in Hohenwald. After Hohenwald, SR 48 then goes due north to Hickman County. Hickman County SR 48 then runs concurrently with SR 100 near the Beaver Dam Creek Wildlife Management Area. It follows SR 100 to Centerville, where it intersects SR 50 and bridges the Duck River. SR 48 becomes a secondary route after separating from SR 100 and intersects SR 230 at Nunnelly. It then traverses Pinewood, and then intersects the exit 163 interchange with Interstate 40 (I-40) not long afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunnelly, Tennessee
Nunnelly is an unincorporated community in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. Nunnelly is located at the junction of Tennessee State Route 48 and Tennessee State Route 230 north of Centerville. Nunnelly has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ... with ZIP code 37137. References Unincorporated communities in Hickman County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee {{HickmanCountyTN-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinewood Church
Pinewood may refer to: * Pine wood, the wood from pine trees Places Canada * Pinewood (North Bay), a neighborhood in North Bay, Ontario, Canada * Pinewood, Ontario, a township in Ontario, Canada England * Pinewood, Berkshire * Pinewood, Hampshire, a village * Pinewood, Suffolk United States * Pinewood, Florida, a census-designated place in Miami-Dade County * Pinewoods Dance Camp in Plymouth, Massachusetts * Pinewood, Minnesota, an unincorporated area in Beltrami County * Pinewood, South Carolina, a town in Sumter County * Pinewood (Nunnelly, Tennessee), a former historic mansion and plantation * Pinewood Estates, Texas, an unincorporated community in Hardin County * Pinewoods (Lightfoot, Virginia), a historic home Other uses * "Pinewood" (''Gotham''), an episode of ''Gotham'' * Pinewood Group, an international group of film production studios ** Pinewood Studios, a film studio in Britain ** Pinewood Toronto Studios, a film studio in Toronto, Canada ** Pinewood Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee State Route 230
State Route 230 (SR 230) is a secondary state highway located in Humphreys County and Hickman County in Middle Tennessee. It consists largely of former county highways that were designated as a state route in order to ensure adequate ongoing maintenance funding. Route description SR 230 runs from its western terminus at SR 13 in Humphreys County south of Waverly roughly southeast to the rural community of Bold Spring. This portion of the highway is known as Bold Spring Road. From Bold Spring, the highway runs roughly south until it enters Hickman County; it crosses I-40 shortly thereafter. From this point it trends largely east, passing through the rural community of Spot and the former Hickman County seat, Vernon. Meeting SR 48 at the community of Nunnelly, it is overlain by 48 until the junction with SR 100 junction in eastern Centerville. From there it is overlain by SR 100 until just west of Lyles where it splits from SR 100, again running south and throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn (; April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022) was an American country music singer and songwriter. In a career spanning six decades, Lynn released multiple gold albums. She had numerous hits such as " You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", " Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", "One's on the Way", "Fist City", and " Coal Miner's Daughter". In 1980, the film '' Coal Miner's Daughter'' was made based on her life. Lynn received many awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music, including awards from both the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music as a duet partner and an individual artist. She was nominated 18 times for a Grammy Award, and won three times. , Lynn was the most awarded female country recording artist, and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade (1970s). Lynn scored 24 No. 1 hit singles and 11 number one albums. She ended 57 years of touring on the road after she suffered a stroke in 2017 and br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Mills, Tennessee
Hurricane Mills is an unincorporated community in Humphreys County, Tennessee, United States. Its ZIP code is 37078. The community is centered on Loretta Lynn's Ranch, which features a small number of businesses and a post office. Each year, the ranch hosts several concerts and motocross races, including the AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship, which it has hosted since 1982. Most or all of the community is included in the Hurricane Mills Rural Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Buffalo community, located at I-40 Interstate 40 (I-40) is a major east–west Interstate Highway running through the south-central portion of the United States. At a length of , it is the third-longest Interstate Highway in the country, after I-90 and I-80. From west to ea ... exit 143, is in Hurricane Mills' zip code and features several gas stations, restaurants and hotels. Notes Unincorporated communities in Humphreys County, Tennes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee State Route 13
State Route 13 (SR 13), in the United States, is a south–north route from the Alabama border in Wayne County, Tennessee, Wayne County to the Kentucky border in Montgomery County, Tennessee, Montgomery County. The entire route is located in western Middle Tennessee. For the majority of its length, SR 13 is designated as a primary highway, except between Erin, Tennessee, Erin and Cunningham, Montgomery County, Tennessee, Cunningham, which is designated as a secondary highway. Route description Wayne County SR 13 begins at the Alabama state line in Wayne County just south of Fairview, Wayne County, Tennessee, Fairview, where it continues south as Alabama State Route 17, SR 17. It then goes north through Fairview and has an intersection and short concurrency with Tennessee State Route 227, SR 227 before continuing north, crossing under, and paralleling the Natchez Trace Parkway for a few miles to Collinwood, Tennessee, Collinwood, where it intersects with Tennessee State Route ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waverly Elem
Waverly may refer to: Education ;United States * Waverly Community Schools, a school district located in Lansing, Michigan * Waverly School District 145, Nebraska * Waverly Central School District, New York * Waverly High School (other) * The Waverly School, a private school in Pasadena, California Hotels * Hotel Waverly, Toronto, Ontario, Canada * Hotel Waverly (New Bedford, Massachusetts), United States, on the National Register of Historic Places * The Waverly, Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States, a historic hotel on the National Register of Historic Places Places ;United States * Waverly, Alabama, a town * Waverly, Colorado, an unincorporated community * Waverly, Florida, a census-designated place * Waverly, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Waverly, Illinois, a small city * Waverly Lake, Illinois, a reservoir * Waverly, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Waverly, Iowa, a city * Waverly, Kansas, a city * Waverly, Kentucky, a city * Waverly, Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
