The Country Squire Lakes 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.
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy; warmer
Mostly sunny
Sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
6° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1938. Next is 8° in 1959.
Country Squire Lakes’s center stands about 700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 610 ft to 760 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows New Albany Shale (black-shale), from the Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 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 58×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Black-shale. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Devonian, 359 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 Country Squire Lakes reaches the Gulf of America by way of Sixmile Creek, the Vernon Fork, the Muscatatuck, the East Fork White, the White River, Big Bayou, the Wabash River Old Channel, the Old Channel Wabash, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,430 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 Country Squire Lakes; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Country Squire Lakes has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 17 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 49 inches of water.
On November 14 Country Squire Lakes normally reaches 56° and falls to 36°. The record high is 75°, in 1971; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.80 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1938 at North Vernon 2 ESE, 6 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
