The Munfordville 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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10° on Nov. 14, 1986, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1934. Next is 11° in 2019.
Munfordville’s center stands about 620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 480 ft to 930 ft, a difference of 450 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Frenchman Knob, about 1,170 ft, 6 miles north.
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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 37×. 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 17 mi of the line.
Limestone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. 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 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 Munfordville reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Green River, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,390 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 Munfordville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Munfordville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 54 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Munfordville normally reaches 62° and falls to 40°. The record high is 77°, in 1964; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.36 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1934 at Mammoth Cave, 17 miles southwest, 140 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
