The Cherokee Village 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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11° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1897. Next is 12° in 1916.
Cherokee Village’s center stands about 680 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 400 ft to 790 ft, a difference of 390 ft: rolling country.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 37×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 22 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 2 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 Cherokee Village reaches the Gulf of America by way of Short Draft Branch, the South Fork Spring, the Spring, the Black River, the White River and the Mississippi: about 1,000 river miles.
620 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cherokee Village; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cherokee Village has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 51 inches of water.
On November 14 Cherokee Village normally reaches 59° and falls to 38°. The record high is 78°, in 1999; the record low 11°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.85 in, fell in 1915.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 at Hardy, 4 miles east-southeast, 280 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
