The Preble 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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72° on Nov. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 70° in 2012.
Preble’s center stands about 1,170 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 790 ft to 1,220 ft, a difference of 430 ft: hilly country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lower Ordovician (dolostone, sandstone), from the Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 30×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone, sandstone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 447 to 459 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Middle Cambrian to Cambrian, 487 to 521 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 Preble reaches the Gulf of America by way of the South Fork Root, the Root and the Mississippi: about 1,720 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Preble; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Preble has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 5° in January. About 37 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Preble normally reaches 45° and falls to 25°. The record high is 72°, in 1999; the record low 4°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.32 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Rushford, 12 miles north, 400 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
