The Elkhorn 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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85° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1942. Next is 80° in 1989.
Elkhorn City’s center stands about 800 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 770 ft to 2,690 ft, a difference of 1,920 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Skeet Rock Knob, about 3,000 ft, 4 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lee Formation (conglomerate), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 9×. 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, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Arenite, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 299 to 422 million years old. About 0.6 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 Elkhorn City reaches the Gulf of America by way of Beaver Creek, the Russell Fork, the Levisa Fork, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,770 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 Elkhorn City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Elkhorn City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. A normal year brings about 16 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Elkhorn City normally reaches 57° and falls to 32°. The record high is 80°, in 1989; the record low 14°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.52 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1942 at Grundy, 15 miles east, 360 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
