The Cave City 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. 14, 1986, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1934. Next is 11° in 2019.
Cave City’s center stands about 640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 620 ft to 960 ft, a difference of 340 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Prewitts Knob, about 1,080 ft, 2 miles south-southwest.
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 40×. 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 14 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 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.
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.
Cave City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 54 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Cave City normally reaches 62° and falls to 40°. The record high is 77°, in 1964; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.36 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1934 at Mammoth Cave, 10 miles west, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
