The Inez 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. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1990. Next is 76° in 2006.
Inez’s center stands about 800 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 640 ft to 1,200 ft, a difference of 560 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Antley Knob, about 1,840 ft, 12 miles east.
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 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 17×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.4 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 Inez reaches the Gulf of America by way of Rockcastle Creek, the Tug Fork, 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 Inez; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Inez has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1990 at Inez 2 E, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
