Photo credits
Updated 6 November 2026
The site uses 46 pictures. Thirty are real photographs taken from Wikimedia Commons, the free media library, and each is used under the license its author chose: Creative Commons licenses of several kinds, CC0, or the public domain. The table below lists every photograph with a link to its Commons page, its author as Commons records it, and its license.
The other 16 are AI-generated pictures, made for this site for scenes such as a crawlspace or a water heater in a utility room. Each one is labeled as AI-generated wherever it appears, so it is never presented as a photograph of a real Clarksville house.
What was changed
All pictures were cropped to the same 4:3 shape and resized for fast loading. On some photographs, details that could identify a business or a person were hidden:
- brand names on a kettle and a dish-soap bottle, magazine titles, a water meter's maker name and utility initials on a meter lid were blurred;
- signs at a water plant and beside a road, and a door number, were blurred;
- people on a walkway at a river intake were blurred;
- one lawn photograph was cropped to remove cars and license plates, and one archive photograph was cropped to remove a handwritten caption.
The table notes which pictures were blurred or cropped. Anyone who wants to reuse a photograph should start from its Commons page, where the author's license terms for the original file are set out in full.
The sources behind the numbers, as opposed to the pictures, are listed on the methods and sources page.
| Picture | By and license | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Snow-laden evergreen trees on both sides of a snow-covered clearing after a winter storm | Volunteer Politics · CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Green hillside lawn with a white-flowering dogwood and pink redbuds below a white-columned brick house in spring | Nyttend · Public domain | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Garden hose attached to an outdoor spigot with a green handle, dripping onto the grass | TCAtexas · CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Tall yellowing fall trees over a small-town street in Adams, Tennessee, with a white two-story house at the edge Logos, signs or faces blurred or cropped. | Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Round cast-iron water meter lid set in a concrete sidewalk, with WATER METER cast into the rim Logos, signs or faces blurred or cropped. | USEPA Environmental-Protection-Agency · Public domain | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Hands filling a clear glass with tap water from a tall kitchen faucet Logos, signs or faces blurred or cropped. | Shixart1985 · CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Small screened crawlspace vent low in the red-brick wall of a house, above a mulched shrub bed | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| White electric tank water heater on a drain pan, its relief valve piped down the side toward the floor | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| White elevated water tank on green steel legs, painted with the Clarksville and Montgomery County name | CleanAirClarksville · CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Large white paddle-wheel riverboat docked at a riverfront walk on the Cumberland River under a clear sky | NachoServant · CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Pop-up sprinkler head in sun-browned summer grass next to a sidewalk wet from watering Logos, signs or faces blurred or cropped. | Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Broken lawn sprinkler throwing a tall jet of water into the air at night in a front yard | Mrbeastmodeallday · CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Close-up of a water meter face showing the rolling number register and a small red leak-test dial Logos, signs or faces blurred or cropped. | André Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| White toilet with the lid up and pale blue dye showing in the bowl water during a tank leak test | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Corner of a sided house with the overhead power line mast on the roof and the round electric meter on the wall | Chetvorno · CC0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Coal-fired power plant with four tall smokestacks, two striped red and white, under a cloudy sky | TVA Web Team · CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Glass electric kettle crusted with white limescale around the lid, inside the glass and on its base Logos, signs or faces blurred or cropped. | Lee Haywood from Wollaton, Nottingham, England · CC BY-SA 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Tall road cut of layered gray and rust-stained limestone beside a two-lane highway | Joseph H. Hartman · CC0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| A water treatment plant in Millington, Tennessee: a low brick building with a lawn, a driveway and a water tower behind it Logos, signs or faces blurred or cropped. | Thomas R Machnitzki · CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Concrete raw-water intake tower reached by a footbridge on the bank of a river Logos, signs or faces blurred or cropped. | Michael Osborne · Public domain | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Open curb stop box in a lawn with its lid set aside, showing a curb stop valve on an old dull gray service pipe | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Hand holding a cut section of old water pipe, its inside clogged with thick dark scale | Vjdeep · CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Red cast-iron hand water pump standing beside the porch of a white clapboard building Logos, signs or faces blurred or cropped. | Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| The Red River seen from a bridge, a slow brown-green stream between wooded banks | Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Snow-covered yard in front of bare trees and a snowy cedar on a gray winter day | GatewayPolitics · CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Crepe myrtle seed pods sealed in clear ice with icicles hanging below after an ice storm | GatewayPolitics · CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Crawlspace under a house lit by a work light, with water pipes along the floor joists and black plastic over the dirt | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Copper water pipe under a floor wrapped in gray foam insulation, the elbow wrapped too | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Two older houses in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, behind bare winter trees and dormant lawns on a quiet street | Nyttend · Public domain | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Brass ball valve with a red lever handle on a copper water line running along a utility-room wall | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Aerial view of Clarksville with the Cumberland River curving around tan floodplain fields | Pi.1415926535 · CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Black-and-white 1937 photo of the flooded Cumberland River spreading under a steel truss bridge near Clarksville Logos, signs or faces blurred or cropped. | unknown (see source page) · Public domain | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Mossy limestone sinkhole opening dropping into a dark hollow | Brian Stansberry · CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| White arched pavilion at a cave mouth in the woods, with a shallow spring-fed lake in front | Joe Mojohovits at English Wikipedia · Public domain | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| Two round green septic tank lids set flush in a mown back lawn behind a brick house | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Row of brick suburban houses with yards under floodwater | FEMA/David Fine · Public domain | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| A house under construction in New Zealand: a wood-framed two-story house with open stud walls and roof trusses | L Maule · CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| White bungalow in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with an arched porch and a sunroom behind a lawn on a quiet residential street | Nyttend · Public domain | Wikimedia Commons file page |
| White electric tank water heater with two element covers, standing on a drain pan in a laundry corner beside a washer | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Electric tank water heater on a drain pan in a garage beside a gray breaker panel, with a copper relief-valve pipe running down | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Tall heat pump water heater with a dark fan unit on top, standing in an unfinished basement beside a block wall | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Top of a heat pump water heater, with the air grille of its fan unit and a small control panel | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| A hand holding a dial thermometer under hot water running from a kitchen faucet into a white sink | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Hot water running from a kitchen faucet into a glass with a dial thermometer in it, steam rising | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| Green garden hose attached to the brass drain valve at the base of a water heater, running across a garage floor | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |
| White bucket of drained water with tan mineral sediment settled on the bottom and a hose end on the rim | AI-generated picture made for this site | — |