The Buckner 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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3.14 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1945. The next wettest, 3.08 inches, fell in 2024.
Buckner’s center stands about 820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 660 ft to 870 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Laurel Dolomite, Osgood Formation, and Brassfield Dolomite, undivided (dolostone), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 37×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 384 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 0.3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units 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 Buckner reaches the Gulf of America by way of Darby Creek, Harrods Creek, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,370 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 Buckner; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Buckner has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. A normal year brings about 13 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
On November 14 Buckner normally reaches 58° and falls to 40°. The record high is 76°, in 2011; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.89 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Louisville Bowman Field, 16 miles southwest, 280 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
