The Ellisville 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. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1987. Next is 13° in 2018.
Ellisville’s center stands about 740 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 530 ft to 790 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Osagean Series (limestone), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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 41×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 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 Ellisville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Keifer Creek, the Meramec and the Mississippi: about 1,160 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ellisville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ellisville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ellisville normally reaches 57° and falls to 35°. The record high is 80°, in 2025; the record low 13°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 2.08 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1987 at St Louis Spirit Of St Louis Airport, 6 miles northwest, 280 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
