The Patriot 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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5.01 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1959. The next wettest, 3.24 inches, fell in 1993.
Patriot’s center stands about 490 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 450 ft to 860 ft, a difference of 410 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Eagle Hill, about 900 ft, 9 miles south-southeast.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 39×. 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: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 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 Patriot reaches the Gulf of America by way of 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 Patriot; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Patriot has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 6 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
On November 14 Patriot normally reaches 57° and falls to 34°. The record high is 74°, in 2011; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.73 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1959 at Warsaw Markland Dam, 8 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
