GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
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148 <strong>GROUND</strong> <strong>WATER</strong> <strong>IN</strong> <strong>NORTH</strong>-<strong>CENTRAL</strong> <strong>TENNESSEE</strong><br />
Driller's partial log of Cumberland Furnace wett No. 1, on Mrs. Emma Watt's<br />
property<br />
[No. 193, pi. 4. Well drilled by Tuxbury Oil Co. in April, 1919. Diameter at top, 10 inches; at bottom,<br />
6J_ inches. Total depth, 1,142 feet; no water-bearing beds below 320 feet]<br />
Feet<br />
Cherty residual soil__________________________________ 0-52<br />
Limestone, white, large yield of water at 150 feet_______ 52-162<br />
Sandstone, gray, medium hard, water bearing; static<br />
level of water 125 feet below casing head_______ _ 315-320<br />
Shale, black (Chattanooga shale)________________ 445-522<br />
Driller's partial log of Cumberland Furnace well No. 2, on Mr. Stark's property<br />
[No. 194, pi. 4. Well drilled in December, 1919. Diameter at top, 12J_ inches; bottom, at 6M inches.<br />
Total depth, 1,166 feet]<br />
Feet<br />
Cherty residual soil_____________________________ 0-11<br />
Limestone, bluish gray; easing set at bottom to shut out<br />
water___________________________ 11-131<br />
Limestone and shale, water bearing__________________ 278-285<br />
Shale, black (Chattanooga shale)________________ 300-342<br />
Shale, brown__________________________________ 342-369<br />
Sandstone (?), fine grained, white, contains salt water. __ 525-554<br />
Driller's partial log of Henry and Elijah Taylor's wett<br />
[No. 222, pi. 4. Well drilled by Tennessee Central Oil Co. in 1920. Diameter at bottom, 5Ji inches; total<br />
depth, 1,378 feet; approximate altitude of casing head, 570 feet above sea level]<br />
Feet<br />
Soil________________________________ 0-10<br />
Limestone, gray, cherty________________________ 10-109<br />
Shale, black (Chattanooga shale)_________________ 109-114<br />
Limestone, pink______________________________ 114-264<br />
Limestone, bluish gray_______________________ 264-315<br />
Limestone and shale, gray________________________ 315-440<br />
Shale, gray________________________ 440-490<br />
Limestone, sandy, dense_________-_______-_-_____ 490-547<br />
Limestone, hard______________________________ 547-563<br />
Limestone_____________________________ 563-700<br />
Shale, gray_______________________'_____ 700-750<br />
Limestone, hard, brown to gray.__________________ 750-925<br />
Limestone, cherty_______________________________ 925-953<br />
Limestone, dark olive-green; contains salt water____ 1, 373-1, 378<br />
HOUSTON COUNTY<br />
[Area, 197 square miles. Population, 5,555]<br />
GENERAL FEATURES<br />
Houston County is a rather sparsely settled rural area that lies in<br />
the west-central part of the region described in this report. (See pi.<br />
1, p. 24.) Its county seat, Erin (population 819), is on the Louisville<br />
& Nashville Railroad near the west edge of the Wells Creek Valley.<br />
Houston County is a part of the Highland Rim plateau (pp. 16-18),<br />
although its surface has been so intricately and so deeply dissected by<br />
tributaries of the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers as to bear little