The Kingston 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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76° on Nov. 11, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1938. Next is 75° in 1999.
Kingston’s center stands about 690 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 520 ft to 750 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Famennian formations (shale, siltstone), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 374 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 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.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Early Mississippian to Middle Mississippian, 331 to 359 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 374 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Mississippian to Middle Mississippian, 331 to 359 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 388 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone, siltstone. Age: Early Mississippian, 347 to 359 million years old. About 0.3 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 Kingston reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Cottonwood Drain and the Mississippi: about 1,400 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kingston; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kingston has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 17 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 37 inches of water.
On November 14 Kingston normally reaches 51° and falls to 33°. The record high is 75°, in 1999; the record low 7°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.77 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1938 at Gladstone L/D 18, 7 miles south, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
