The Clarks Hill 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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2° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1954. Next is 3° in 1959.
Clarks Hill’s center stands about 830 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 770 ft to 840 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Borden Group (siltstone), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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.
Siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 8 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 Clarks Hill reaches the Gulf of America by way of Lauramie Creek, South Fork Wildcat Creek, Wildcat Creek, Big Bayou, the Wabash River Old Channel, the Old Channel Wabash, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,440 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 Clarks Hill; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Clarks Hill has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 20 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Clarks Hill normally reaches 51° and falls to 34°. The record high is 77°, in 1955; the record low 10°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.86 in, fell in 1978.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1954 at Lafayette 8 S, 10 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
