The Higginsville 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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5° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1991. Next is 10° in 2018.
Higginsville’s center stands about 820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 710 ft to 870 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Weldon River-Warrensburg-Moberly Channel Sandstone, from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 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, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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 Higginsville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Maries Creek, Davis Creek, the Blackwater, the Lamine, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,450 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Higginsville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Higginsville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 14 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 41 inches of water.
On November 14 Higginsville normally reaches 53° and falls to 34°. The record high is 78°, in 1999; the record low 11°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.43 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1991 at Higginsville, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
