The Gracey 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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9° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1896. Next is 12° in 1959.
Gracey’s center stands about 510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 460 ft to 620 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Buie Knob, about 800 ft, 5 miles north.
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 53×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Limestone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.2 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 Gracey reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Sinking Fork, the Little River, the Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,120 river miles.
Lake on the way: Bards Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Gracey; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Gracey has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. A normal year brings about 5 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
On November 14 Gracey normally reaches 59° and falls to 38°. The record high is 82°, in 1955; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.72 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Hopkinsville, 8 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
