The Pulaski 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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12° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1923. Next is 16° in 1997.
Pulaski’s center stands about 340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 320 ft to 470 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Italian Hill, about 900 ft, 9 miles northwest.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 35×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Silurian to Early Devonian, 394 to 425 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Paleocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 84 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Tertiary to Holocene, less than 66 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 Pulaski reaches the Gulf of America by way of Pulaski Slough, the Cache and the Mississippi: about 1,000 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pulaski; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pulaski has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 49 inches of water.
On November 14 Pulaski normally reaches 58° and falls to 39°. The record high is 75°, in 1999; the record low 14°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.04 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1923 at Olmsted Lock And Dam, 8 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
