GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
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190 <strong>GROUND</strong> <strong>WATER</strong> <strong>IN</strong> <strong>NORTH</strong>-<strong>CENTRAL</strong> <strong>TENNESSEE</strong><br />
Driller's log of well on William Webb estate<br />
[No. 423, pi. 4]<br />
Limestone, soft, dark__________________-__--_-___-_-_ 0- 90<br />
Limestone, gray, dense___________________..-_-_-_--- 90-107<br />
Limestone, dark, soft____________________---____---__ 107-130<br />
Flint [chert?]_______________________________________ 130-133<br />
Limestone, soft_____________________________________ 133-142<br />
Limestone__--______________________-_-___---_---_ 142-154<br />
Limestone, reddish gray, with layers of white chert 3 feet<br />
apart__-__--__-_______________________-__--__-_ 154-192<br />
Limestone_____________________________ .L 192-204<br />
Limestone, dark, soft__________________________ 204-212<br />
Limestone, buff, with black chert-_______-_____-__-_ 212-292<br />
Limestone, white, thin bedded___.___________ 292-322<br />
Shale, black________________________________________ 332-400<br />
Limestone, cherty at top_._________________---____--- 400-440<br />
Limestone, bluish black, earthy____-____----_-_-----_, 440-446<br />
STEWABT OOUNTT<br />
[Area, 449 square miles. Population, 13,278]<br />
GENERAL FEATURES<br />
Stewart County, which occupies the northwest corner of the region<br />
described in this report (pi. 1), is bounded on the west by the Ten<br />
nessee River, on the north by Kentucky, on the east by Montgom<br />
ery County, and on the south by Houston County. Its density of<br />
population, as in the other counties along the east side of the Ten<br />
nessee River Valley, is less than in other parts of north-central<br />
Tennessee. The county seat, Dover (estimated population, 406), is<br />
on the south bank of the Cumberland River near the geographic<br />
center of the county.<br />
Although the county lies in the physiographic district known as<br />
the Highland Rim plateau (pp. 16-18), only a part of its northeastern<br />
quadrant shows any extensive level tracts such as are characteristic<br />
of that peneplain. Most of the county is deeply dissected by the<br />
subparallel tributaries of the Tennessee River and of the Cumber<br />
land River, which traverses the county from southeast to northwest.<br />
Even in this dissected area, however, the crest of the divide between<br />
the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and the crests of many of the<br />
subordinate ridges have not been reduced below the peneplain level.<br />
These peneplain remnants rise southward from an altitude of about<br />
525 to 600 feet above sea level along the northern boundary of the<br />
county to nearly 750 feet above sea level along its southern boundary.<br />
The master streams are about 300 to 335 feet above sea level, so that<br />
the total relief in the county is about 450 feet. A part of this relief<br />
is expressed in open mature valleys at the heads of tributary streams,<br />
but by far the greater part in narrow youthful trenches of the master<br />
streams and of the lower reaches of the tributaries.