The Rossville 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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4° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1914. Next is 4° in 2019.
Rossville’s center stands about 730 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 680 ft to 800 ft, a difference of 120 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 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 54×. 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 18 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 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 Rossville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Middle Fork Wildcat Creek, Wildcat Creek, 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 Rossville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rossville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 24 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 43 inches of water.
On November 14 Rossville normally reaches 51° and falls to 34°. The record high is 74°, in 1931; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.55 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1914 at Frankfort Disposal, 10 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
