The Ashland 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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−1° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1900. Next is 1° in 1940.
Ashland’s center stands about 1,980 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,910 ft to 2,100 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Nebo, about 2,440 ft, 6 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (sand, silt, clay), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 28×. 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, sandstone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, black-shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Arkose. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Ashland reaches the Gulf of America by way of Bear Creek, the Cimarron, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,440 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
600 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ashland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ashland has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 12 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 23 inches of water.
On November 14 Ashland normally reaches 60° and falls to 30°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low 4°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.80 in, fell in 1947.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1900 at Ashland, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
