The Freetown 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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7° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 8° in 1916.
Freetown’s center stands about 690 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 590 ft to 970 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Weed Patch Hill, about 1,130 ft, 14 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Borden Group (siltstone), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 40×. 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 24 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 Freetown reaches the Gulf of America by way of South Fork Salt Creek, Salt Creek, the East Fork White, the White River, Big Bayou, the Wabash River Old Channel, the Old Channel Wabash, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,390 river miles.
Lake on the way: Monroe Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Freetown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Freetown has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 16 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Freetown normally reaches 55° and falls to 34°. The record high is 83°, in 1955; the record low 11°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.71 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Columbus, 17 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
