The Bowling Green 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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88° on Nov. 13, 1909, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 80° in 1927.
Bowling Green’s center stands about 540 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 430 ft to 590 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Peach Orchard Knob, about 820 ft, 15 miles west-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 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 52×. 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 17 mi of the line.
Limestone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 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 Bowling Green reaches the Gulf of America by way of Drakes Creek, the Barren, the Green River, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,360 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 Bowling Green; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bowling Green has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. A normal year brings about 8 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 50 inches of water.
On November 14 Bowling Green normally reaches 60° and falls to 38°. The record high is 80°, in 1964; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.13 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Bowling Green Warren County Airport, 2 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
