The Russellville plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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15° on Nov. 13, 1968, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1953. Next is 15° in 1969.
Russellville’s center stands about 760 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 660 ft to 990 ft, a difference of 330 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Suggs Mountain, about 1,040 ft, 4 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Bangor Limestone, from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 33×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Russellville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Town Branch, Cedar Creek, Bear Creek, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,310 river miles.
Lakes on the way: White Lake (historical), Pickwick Lake and Cedar Creek Reservoir.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Russellville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Russellville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Russellville normally reaches 63° and falls to 40°. The record high is 80°, in 1955; the record low 16°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 1.75 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1953 at Russellville No 2, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
