The Heritage Creek 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 1995. Next is 17° in 1995.
Heritage Creek’s center stands about 590 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 460 ft to 710 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mountain Top, about 990 ft, 15 miles southwest.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 45×. 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: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Devonian to Middle Devonian, 384 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 0.8 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 Heritage Creek reaches the Gulf of America by way of Cedar Creek, the Floyds Fork, the Salt River, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,360 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 Heritage Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Heritage Creek has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 15 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 53 inches of water.
On November 14 Heritage Creek normally reaches 57° and falls to 38°. The record high is 75°, in 2011; the record low 21°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.85 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1995 at Louisville Wfo, 3 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
