The Licking 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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4.87 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1936. The next wettest, 4.04 inches, fell in 2015.
Licking’s center stands about 1,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,140 ft to 1,360 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Roubidoux Formation (sandstone, chert), from the Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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.
Sandstone, chert. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 19 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 2 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 Licking reaches the Gulf of America by way of Spring Creek, the Big Piney, the Gasconade, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,430 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 Licking; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Licking has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 11 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 46 inches of water.
On November 14 Licking normally reaches 56° and falls to 35°. The record high is 81°, in 1999; the record low 4°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 4.47 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1936 at Licking 4 N, 4 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
