The Hardinsburg 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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13° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1972. Next is 14° in 1986.
Hardinsburg’s center stands about 710 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 500 ft to 740 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hogback Hill, about 940 ft, 14 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Rocks of Chesterian age, lower part (limestone, sandstone), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 42×. 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, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.3 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.
A raindrop that lands in Hardinsburg reaches the Gulf of America by way of Hardins Creek, Sinking Creek, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,270 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 Hardinsburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hardinsburg has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. A normal year brings about 11 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 49 inches of water.
On November 14 Hardinsburg normally reaches 57° and falls to 38°. The record high is 73°, in 1973; the record low 13°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.21 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1972 at Cannelton, 16 miles west-northwest, 310 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
