The West Liberty 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.
West Liberty’s center stands about 890 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 750 ft to 1,140 ft, a difference of 390 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pilot Knob, about 1,320 ft, 10 miles south-southwest.
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 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 35×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 West Liberty reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Licking, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,700 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 West Liberty; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Liberty 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 West Liberty 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, 23 miles south, 460 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
