The Creal Springs 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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5° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 9° in 1986.
Creal Springs’s center stands about 510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 450 ft to 620 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Jims Hill, about 770 ft, 13 miles west-southwest.
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 40×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Early Pennsylvanian to Middle Pennsylvanian, 307 to 324 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, coal. Age: Middle Pennsylvanian to Late Pennsylvanian, 304 to 315 million years old. About 7 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 Creal Springs reaches the Gulf of America by way of Cana Creek, the South Fork Saline, the Saline, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,140 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Creal Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Creal Springs has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 50 inches of water.
On November 14 Creal Springs normally reaches 58° and falls to 38°. The record high is 75°, in 2025; the record low 9°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.01 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Dixon Springs Agric Cntr, 16 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
