The Hughesville 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 1996. Next is 9° in 2018.
Hughesville’s center stands about 820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 750 ft to 840 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Riverton Formation, Burgner Formation (shale, siltstone, mudstone), 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.
Shale, siltstone, mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Limestone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.4 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 Hughesville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Hess Creek, Heaths Creek, the Lamine, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,410 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 Hughesville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hughesville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. About 36 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hughesville normally reaches 54° and falls to 35°. The record high is 78°, in 2025; the record low 9°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.41 in, fell in 2020.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Sedalia Memorial Airport, 11 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
