The Hopkinsville 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.
Hopkinsville’s center stands about 540 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 510 ft to 640 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pilot Rock, about 900 ft, 12 miles east-northeast.
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 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 56×. 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 13 mi of the line.
Limestone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 11 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 Hopkinsville reaches the Gulf of America by way of the South Fork Little, the Little River, the Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,150 river miles.
Lake on the way: Bards Lake.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hopkinsville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hopkinsville 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 Hopkinsville 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, 2 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
