The East Galesburg 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 1896. Next is 74° in 2020.
East Galesburg’s center stands about 730 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 690 ft to 810 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pilot Knob, about 890 ft, 10 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Carbondale Formation (shale, sandstone, coal), from the Middle Pennsylvanian to Late Pennsylvanian, 304 to 315 million years old.
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 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.
Shale, sandstone, coal. Age: Middle Pennsylvanian to Late Pennsylvanian, 304 to 315 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Early Pennsylvanian to Middle Pennsylvanian, 307 to 324 million years old. About 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 East Galesburg reaches the Gulf of America by way of Court Creek, Fox Creek, the Illinois and the Mississippi: about 1,430 river miles.
1,190 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of East Galesburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
East Galesburg has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 25 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 East Galesburg normally reaches 50° and falls to 31°. The record high is 71°, in 2011; the record low 12°, in 1900. The most rain on this date, 0.45 in, fell in 1902.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Knoxville, 3 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
