The Glasgow 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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3.76 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1963. The next wettest, 2.58 inches, fell in 1980.
Glasgow’s center stands about 750 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 640 ft to 880 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Prewitts Knob, about 1,080 ft, 9 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Salem, Warsaw, and Harrodsburg 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 49×. 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. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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.
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 Glasgow reaches the Gulf of America by way of Huggins Branch, Beaver Creek, the Barren, the Green River, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,420 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 Glasgow; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Glasgow has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 6 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 53 inches of water.
On November 14 Glasgow normally reaches 59° and falls to 36°. The record high is 81°, in 2010; the record low 16°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.80 in, fell in 2007.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1963 at Barren River Lake, 14 miles west-southwest, 140 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
