The Belleville 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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82° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1935. Next is 81° in 2016.
Belleville’s center stands about 1,550 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,440 ft to 1,610 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Loess (silt), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 55×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Claystone, mudstone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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.
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 Belleville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Riley Creek, Salt Creek, the Republican, the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,820 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Belleville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Belleville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. A normal year brings about 15 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 31 inches of water.
On November 14 Belleville normally reaches 53° and falls to 29°. The record high is 74°, in 2025; the record low 0°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.63 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1935 at Belleville, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
