The Belleville 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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17° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1939. Next is 18° in 1969.
Belleville’s center stands about 370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 330 ft to 560 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Signal Hill, about 2,760 ft, 12 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Atoka Formation - Middle part (sandstone, shale), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 13×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.5 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 Belleville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Few Branch, Russell Branch, the Petit Jean, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 860 river miles.
Lake on the way: Murray Lake.
600 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Belleville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Belleville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Belleville normally reaches 63° and falls to 38°. The record high is 83°, in 2007; the record low 20°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.41 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1939 at Blue Mountain Dam, 12 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
