About the Area

County: Rutherford
County Seat: Murfreesboro
Telephone Area Code: (615)

Population:
County: 241,355
Murfreesboro: 100,575
Smyrna: 38,073
La Vergne: 26,472
Eagleville: 491

Geography:
Rutherford County is the geographic center of Tennessee, located Southeast of Nashville on the major interstate (I-24) corridor between Nashville and Chattanooga. Chief topographic features are the Stones River and J. Percy Priest Lake. Rutherford County encompasses 612 square miles and the average elevation is 619 feet above sea level.

Climate:
Mild. The average temperature is 59.6 degrees with the mean summer temperature 78 degrees and the mean winter temperature 36 degrees. Annual average precipitation totals about 50.64 inches of rainfall and 5.9 inches of snowfall. There are approximately 180 days between killing frosts and the prevailing winds are from the south-southwest.