One city.
Every way
to move a box.

Every weeknight around 10 p.m., aircraft begin stacking inbound from every US time zone and from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. By 2 a.m., roughly 150 FedEx jets will have landed, unloaded into the Matrix sort system, and begun pushing back with redistributed freight. The Matrix has more than 300 miles of conveyors and moves ~500,000 packages per night.

FedEx is not the only tenant. UPS runs a secondary overnight air hub on the east side of the field, and Amazon Air operates a dedicated cargo ramp supporting its MEM-codeshare fleet. The map above shows the real runway alignment, the airport boundary, and the named cargo facilities — click any pin for details.

The live aircraft count (top right) is pulled from the OpenSky Network's public ADS-B feed, filtered to the 100-nautical-mile ring around MEM. Callsigns beginning with FDX are highlighted — most will land here within the hour.

BNSF's flagship facility — the Memphis Intermodal Facility at 3660 Forest Hill-Irene Rd — opened in 2011 on a 185-acre site and was designed for one million container lifts per year. It sits on the Transcon main line that runs to Los Angeles. CN's Harrison Yard on Kansas Street is a legacy Illinois Central facility and forms the southern gateway of CN's Chicago–New Orleans spine. NS Forrest Yard on Chelsea Avenue feeds the Crescent Corridor to Atlanta and New York.

CSX's Memphis Intermodal (Leewood Yard) handles the Southeast interchange, and UP's Memphis-area operations are concentrated across the river in Marion, Arkansas — reached via the Harahan Bridge, a dual rail + pedestrian span that parallels the adjacent 1892 Frisco Bridge.

The magenta polygons on the map are the actual rail-yard parcels from OpenStreetMap. Dashed magenta lines are mainline rail. Click a pin for address and operator details.

A standard 15-barge tow — one that can be handled on the lower Mississippi — moves the cargo equivalent of 216 rail cars or 1,050 trucks. The port handles more than 10 million tons annually, including grain, steel, petroleum, cement, and petcoke. Four river bridges cross at Memphis: the Hernando de Soto Bridge carries I-40, the Memphis–Arkansas Bridge carries I-55, and the Harahan and Frisco bridges carry rail.

The gauge-height widget (top right) reads live from USGS station 07032000, the official river-stage gauge at Memphis. The river here typically ranges from 0 ft at drought low to 48+ ft in major flood, with a navigation pool around 10–15 ft being routine.

Zoom and pan the map to see the actual port layout, the bridge alignments, and how the industrial zones radiate out from the harbor.

The map above highlights the actual interstate alignment through the metro. Every amber line is a real motorway segment from OpenStreetMap, not a stylized arc. You can see the I-40 / I-55 split downtown, the Hernando de Soto Bridge crossing, and how I-240 rings the city with on-ramps to every major distribution corridor.

Magenta pins are real distribution centers and Fortune 500 logistics HQs: Nike's 3M-sq-ft campus on E Holmes Rd, AutoZone's downtown HQ on Front St, FedEx Corporation's global HQ on Shady Grove Rd, the Amazon MEM1/MEM2 fulfillment centers, and more. Click any marker for the address and the operator's footprint.

That cluster of pins is the reason Memphis has roughly 310 million square feet of industrial space in its metro — a footprint larger than the entire borough of Manhattan, laid out for pallets.