The Hazel Green 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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81° on Nov. 14, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1981. Next is 78° in 1989.
Hazel Green’s center stands about 1,000 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 870 ft to 1,220 ft, a difference of 350 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pilot Knob, about 1,420 ft, 14 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Breathitt Formation, lower part (shale, siltstone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 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.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 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 Hazel Green reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Red River, the Kentucky, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,680 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 Hazel Green; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hazel Green has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. A normal year brings about 23 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
On November 14 Hazel Green normally reaches 58° and falls to 39°. The record high is 81°, in 1993; the record low 13°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.26 in, fell in 2007.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1981 from the Jackson Area threaded record (Jackson Julian Carroll Airport, 16 miles south-southeast, 360 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
