The Russellville 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 1996. Next is 15° in 1997.
Russellville’s center stands about 430 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 400 ft to 510 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Barefoot Nation Hills, about 660 ft, 9 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Shelburn-Patoka Formations undivided (shale, limestone), from the Late Pennsylvanian, 304 to 307 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 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, limestone. Age: Late Pennsylvanian, 304 to 307 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Pennsylvanian, 304 to 307 million years old. About 1 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 Russellville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Big Bayou, the Wabash River Old Channel, the Old Channel Wabash, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,230 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 Russellville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Russellville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 42 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Russellville normally reaches 55° and falls to 35°. The record high is 76°, in 2025; the record low 18°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.52 in, fell in 2011.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Lawrenceville Vincennes International Airport, 5 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
