The Woodburn 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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88° on Nov. 13, 1909, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 80° in 1927.
Woodburn’s center stands about 630 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 550 ft to 690 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pilot Knob, about 950 ft, 8 miles west.
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 64×. 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 22 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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.
Woodburn has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. A normal year brings about 8 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 50 inches of water.
On November 14 Woodburn normally reaches 60° and falls to 38°. The record high is 80°, in 1964; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.13 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Bowling Green Warren County Airport, 10 miles northeast, 110 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
