The Fairview 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. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1871. Next is 10° in 2019.
Fairview’s center stands about 740 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 470 ft to 900 ft, a difference of 430 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Visalia Hill, about 900 ft, 7 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ashlock Formation, Grant Lake and Calloway Creek Limestones, and Fairview Formation, undivided, from the Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 38×. 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: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit 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 Fairview reaches the Gulf of America by way of DeCoursey Creek, the Licking, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,490 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 Fairview; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fairview has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 23 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Fairview normally reaches 54° and falls to 35°. The record high is 76°, in 1931; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.71 in, fell in 1871.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 from the Cincinnati Area threaded record (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, 11 miles west-northwest, 120 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
