The New Canton 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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3° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 10° in 1986.
New Canton’s center stands about 480 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 450 ft to 740 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is The Mound, about 840 ft, 13 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows New Albany Shale, Blocher Shale, Sylamore Sandstone, Selmier Shale, Sweetland Creek Shale, Grassy Creek Shale, Saverton Shale, and Louisiana Limestone, from the Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 388 million years old.
The section below crosses 11 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 47×. 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, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 454 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 388 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Early Mississippian, 347 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Mississippian to Middle Mississippian, 331 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 84 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. 5 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 New Canton reaches the Gulf of America by way of the The Sny and the Mississippi: about 1,270 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of New Canton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
New Canton has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 38 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 New Canton normally reaches 55° and falls to 36°. The record high is 81°, in 1999; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.55 in, fell in 1985.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Saverton Lock And Dam 22, 8 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
