The Clarksburg 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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4.41 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1954. The next wettest, 2.96 inches, fell in 1985.
Clarksburg’s center stands about 900 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 720 ft to 920 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Kinderhookian Series (limestone, siltstone), 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 53×. 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. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Limestone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone, sandstone. Age: Early Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 0.6 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 Clarksburg reaches the Gulf of America by way of West Brush Creek, Moniteau Creek, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,350 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Clarksburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Clarksburg has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 10 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 43 inches of water.
On November 14 Clarksburg normally reaches 55° and falls to 35°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low 11°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1954 at California, 6 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
