The Ulen 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.
Ulen’s center stands about 940 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 910 ft to 970 ft, a difference of 60 ft: nearly flat ground.
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 3 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 13 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 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 Ulen reaches the Gulf of America by way of Prairie Creek, Sugar Creek, Big Bayou, the Wabash River Old Channel, the Old Channel Wabash, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,410 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 Ulen; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ulen 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 Ulen 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, 16 miles north, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
