The Berry 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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80° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1917. Next is 78° in 2022.
Berry’s center stands about 690 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 640 ft to 930 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Coopertown Hill, about 950 ft, 11 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Garrard Siltstone and Kope and Clays Ferry Formations, undivided (shale, limestone), from the Ordovician, 445 to 487 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 41×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 Berry reaches the Gulf of America by way of the South Fork Licking, the Licking, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,550 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 Berry; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Berry has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Berry normally reaches 56° and falls to 33°. The record high is 72°, in 1989; the record low 14°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.71 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1917 at Cynthiana, 11 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
