The Crater of Diamonds State Park is located approximately 1 mile southeast of the city.

[citation needed][5] As a tourist attraction a daily fee ($10 in 2021) is charged to search for diamonds.

[citation needed][6] Also located in Murfreesboro is the 1,000-year-old Ka-Do-Ha Indian Village and museum dedicated to it, which offers a field that can be excavated for authentic arrowheads.

[7] Murfreesboro was featured in the TV series Reacher, season 2, episode 1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2), all land.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,495 people, 769 households, and 511 families residing in the city.