The Allensville 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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10° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 11° in 1894.
Allensville’s center stands about 580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 540 ft to 630 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Keeling Hill, about 860 ft, 14 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis Limestones, undivided, from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 50×. 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: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Limestone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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 Allensville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Rum Spring Creek, the Elk Fork, the Red River, the Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,200 river miles.
Lake on the way: Bards Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Allensville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Allensville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 54 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Allensville normally reaches 58° and falls to 36°. The record high is 79°, in 1978; the record low 10°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.31 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Russellville, 14 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
