The Rye 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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16° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1876. Next is 19° in 1940.
Rye’s center stands about 180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 130 ft to 250 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gaster Hill, about 390 ft, 12 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Jackson Group (marl), from the Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Marl. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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 Rye reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Saline, the Ouachita, the Black River, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 480 river miles.
190 miles of the trip are on the Ouachita.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Rye; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rye has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 53 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Rye normally reaches 65° and falls to 43°. The record high is 87°, in 1955; the record low 20°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 1.61 in, fell in 2005.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1876 at Monticello Municipal Airport, 16 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
